Avdelningen för psykologi (PSY)

Torsdag 11 April kl 15:15-16:30 Endre Sjøvold, professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Lokal: Hus I Sal 101, Campus Valla, Linköping

Professor Sjøvold will give an overview of the most important trends in our field today, and draw lines back to Heydays of Small Group Research before the nineteen-eighties. He will talk about the use of sensor- and AI-technology to catch the dynamic aspects of group-life, and how complexity-science is challenging our present systemic paradigm. According to him we are now "facing a revolution in our field".

Sjøvold started his career collaborating with R.F. Bales (Harvard) and has contributed to dynamic theory to understand interaction in teams; the spin theory for groups. He has also developed standardized instruments and methods under the collective label SPGR (Systematizing the Person-Group Relation). The Norwegian Armed Forces are using Sjøvold's theories and methods since 2000. Over more than 40 years Sjøvold has worked with organizational change in multinationals, and with teams spanning from top level management to the workshop floor. In his lecture he will draw on his experience to exemplify theory.

Join this open seminar if you like to know the secret of creating High Performance Teams.

Psykologiavdelningen har flera forskare och forskningsgrupper. Vi täcker ett brett spektrum av ämnen inom psykologin, inklusive kognitiv, utvecklingspsykologi, socialpsykologi, hälsopsykologi och klinisk psykologi.