Some Things Learned: An Evaluative History of the Research Center for Group Dynamics

By Dorwin Cartwright

From the Introduction: “The Concept of Group Dynamics. The founding of the Center may be dated as during the academic year 1944-1945, when Kurt Lewin went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The origination of the idea of such a Center, however, occurred some time before that. Undoubtedly, the critical event was Kurt Lewin's move from Germany to the United States. Since, for him, psychology was not divorced from life, he immediately began ot devote his professional interests to the task of gaining a deeper understanding of the differences he observed between Germany and the United States in the period between the two World Wars…

The Journal Of Social Issues. 1958. No.12. 23p.