https://ghafoorsblog.com/tags/sobremesa/Recent content in Sobremesa on Ghafoor's Personal BlogHugoenhello@ghafoorsblog.com (AG Sayyed)hello@ghafoorsblog.com (AG Sayyed)Copyright © 2024-2026 AG Sayyed. All Rights Reserved.Thu, 12 Nov 2026 15:58:40 +0000https://ghafoorsblog.com/shorts/psychology/04-social-psychology-and-language/001-groups-words-and-argument/Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000hello@ghafoorsblog.com (AG Sayyed)https://ghafoorsblog.com/shorts/psychology/04-social-psychology-and-language/001-groups-words-and-argument/<p class="lead text-primary"> Groups can turn on one person, languages name what a culture values, and fair argument starts with understanding the other side. Three short ideas about how people act together and talk to each other. </p> <hr> <h2 id="how-a-group-turns-on-one-person">How a Group Turns on One Person</h2> <p><em>Published 2026-10-27 · <a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yDywj4DEfDQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Watch the short</a></em></p> <p>The Swedish psychologist <strong>Heinz Leymann</strong> studied workplace mobbing in the 1980s and found it tends to follow the same path. The narrator describes watching it happen to a mentor, the sharpest person he had worked with, who pointed out what was broken in front of leadership who did not want to hear it.</p>