Since its establishment in 1948, the Research Center for Group Dynamics’ mission has been to advance the understanding of human behavior in social contexts; making clear the linkages between an individual’s psychological life and the life of the society to which the individual belongs.



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U-M HomeLab
The University of Michigan HomeLab is a homelike research environment with comprehensive research support provided by the BioSocial Methods Collaborative. Located at the Institute for Social Research, the HomeLab offers a a fully functional apartment to facilitate human-centered research in a wide variety of contexts… Read more about U-M HomeLab
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The Michigan Daily spotlights the RCGD HomeLab: “A Playground for Investigators”
Each month, The Michigan Daily’s research beat publishes a feature on one University of Michigan laboratory to highlight the efforts of the lab team and the importance of the research. The U-M HomeLab, which opened in 2017 as part of the Research Center for Group...
A Rarely Bestowed Grant Returns Suzanne Perkins to Research on Child Trauma and Mistreatment
A rarely bestowed grant will allow a University of Michigan researcher to complete work she had to put on hold due to a cancer diagnosis. Suzanne Perkins, a Research Center for Group Dynamics affiliate and a lecturer in psychology at the University of Michigan’s...