Research and Practice will be publishing a special issue (September 2022) on the Group Dynamics of the U.S. Capitol Insurrection. This special issue aims to describe to the ways the study of groups can help us understand and explain the events associated with the January 6th insurrection. Eight featured articles address and analyze the insurrection from multiple and interdisciplinary perspectives. The introductory article also provides an overview of the events of the insurrection. Other featured articles take perspectives such as dynamic social impact theory, person-situation interactionism, emergent norm theory, focus theory, communication models, intergroup dialogue, models of crowd behavior, and motivational systems. The special issue concludes with an article describing the relevance of group dynamics for understanding and explaining the insurrection by highlighting additional topics such as group polarization, interpersonal conflict, and shared social realities. We are looking forward to the release of this special issue. As you may have seen through APA PsycAlert, the articles of the special issue are already available online first (a couple with open access) for those having a Group Dynamics journal subscription.
Please examine these free to read articles of this special issue and promote it to your colleagues to demonstrate the contributions of Division 49 to science, and an understanding and explaining of issues to advance the public’s interests.