Editing Group dynamics (section)

{{Short description|System of behaviors within or between social groups}}
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'''Group dynamics''' is a system of behaviors and psychological processes occurring within a [[social group]] (''intra''group dynamics), or between social groups ([[Intergroup relations|''inter''group dynamics]]). The study of group dynamics can be useful in understanding decision-making behaviour, tracking the spread of diseases in society, creating effective therapy techniques, and following the emergence and popularity of new ideas and technologies.<ref>{{Cite book | last1 = Backstrom | first1 = L. | last2 = Huttenlocher | first2 = D. | last3 = Kleinberg | first3 = J. | last4 = Lan | first4 = X. | chapter = Group formation in large social networks | doi = 10.1145/1150402.1150412 | title = Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining – KDD '06 | page = 44 | year = 2006 | isbn = 978-1595933393 | s2cid = 7904289 }}</ref> These applications of the field are studied in [[psychology]], [[sociology]], [[anthropology]], [[political science]], [[epidemiology]], [[education]], [[social work]], [[leadership studies]], business and managerial studies, as well as [[communication studies]].