There must be as many ways for an organization or community to be helpful to it’s members as there are types of human personalities. One question we can ask in general has to do with finding lists of such behaviors. Can Google help us find these lists?
As a first attempt I submitted “how does group membership help individuals” into Google’s search. You can see from the results that “groups of people” is a huge scholarly topic! The very first entry in the Google results “How groups function” led me to a book on cults, which is probably as good a place to start as any…