Dynamics Within and Outside the Lab. Procedings from the 6th GRASP conference, Lund University, May 2008

In English Since May 1998 Scandinavian group researchers and social psychologists have met bi-annually for what has to be called the GRASP conference. GRASP originally stood for ”Group as Paradox”. The first five conferences were held in Linköping, Lund, Stockholm and Skövde and, again, Linköping.

The sixth conference was organized at Lund University May 15-16, 2008 under the auspices of the network Organisational and Social Applications of Psychology (POST) at the Department of Psychology, Lund University, in cooperation with the School of Social Work, Lund University, and Forum for group and organisation research (FOG), Linköping University.

Generous assistance was given by the the School of Social Work and the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Rsearch(FAS). This year’s theme was ”Dynamics within and outside the lab” and a special emphasis was put on the meeting of different research traditions. 60 researchers and students from Sweden and Norway took part and listened to twenty-seven presentations and two key-note by Susan Wheelan, Ph.D. Eleven contributions have been chosen to represent the conference in this volume.