Prospects for Group Processes and Intergroup Relations Research: A Review of 70 Years' Progress

Georgina Randsley de Moura (1) , Tirza Leader (1) , Joseph Pelletier (1) , Dominic Abrams (1)

1 University of Kent [Canterbury]

Three archival analyses are presented substantially extending empirical reviews of the progress of group-related research. First, an analysis of social psychological research from 1935 to 2007 (cf. Abrams & Hogg, 1998) showed that group-related research has a steadily increasing proportion of titles in the principal journals and currently accounts for over a sixth of all the research in our list of social psychological journals. Second, analysis of the most cited papers from a set of principal social psychology journals from 1998 to 2007 showed that a third of high-impact articles in social psychology focus on groups. Third, analysis of the content of two major specialist journals in the field, and , showed that together these journals cover a broad range of group-related research, and that the only keyword common to both journals was . These findings demonstrate the health and major contributions of research into group processes and intergroup relations to social psychology as a whole.

Mots clés: empirical review; group dynamics; group processes; group-related research; intergroup relations; research development

Georgina Randsley de Moura, Tirza Leader, Joseph Pelletier, Dominic Abrams. Prospects for Group Processes and Intergroup Relations Research: A Review of 70 Years' Progress. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 2008, 11 (4), pp.575-596. ⟨10.1177/1368430208095406⟩. ⟨hal-00571705⟩