DEVELOPMENTAL SEQUENCE IN SMALL GROUPS
Psychological Bulletin1965, Vol. 63, No. 6, 384-399DEVELOPMENTAL SEQUENCE IN SMALL GROUPS1BRUCE W. TUCKMANNaval Medical Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland50 articles dealing with stages of group development over time are separated bygroup setting, as follows: therapy-group studies, T-group studies, and natural-and laboratory-group studies. The stages identified in these articles are separatedinto those descriptive of social or interpersonal group activities and thosedescriptive of group-task activities. Finally, 4 general stages of developmentare proposed, and the review consists of fitting the stages identified in theliterature to those proposed.
for his efforts in helping to review the literature. the area of small-group development will be cited, and a framework within which this phe-nomenon can be better understood and fur-ther investigated will be presented. This framework will also serve to integrate the
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