A trainerless laboratory model wherein the trainer never attends is presented. The discussion includes the advantages and disadvantages of the model, evidence for its effectiveness, and implications for the future of training. (Author)

As a result of experienced group leaders' responses to and observations of interaction scenarios, three distinct and highly interpretable groups in terms of practices, purposes, and processes are discussed. (BY)

In the study reported here, feelings of alienation, as measured by Keniston's (1968) Alienation Scale, were generally found to decrease as a result of particularized group experience. (Author)

The study concludes that attitudes of American university students toward students from other nations can be altered through group involvement methods, even those lasting for only a weekend. (Author)

An experiment to test an encounter group assumption that touching increases interpersonal attraction was conducted. College women were randomly assigned to a touch or no-touch condition. A comparison of total evaluation scores verified the hypothesis: subjects who touched the accomplice perceived her as a more attractive person than those who did…

Results of this study indicated that from prelaboratory to post laboratory, subjects' ratings showed a decrement in self disclosure toward both male and female friends. Thus the communications laboratory seems to have had a significant effect on the participants, the change being in the opposite direction from that expected. (Author)

This study attempted to induce innovations by encouraging groups of teachers to discuss their professional practices during six weekly meetings in self directed T Groups. The results showed an increase in innovation though differences among buildings existed and new ideas and innovations disappeared once the regular meetings stopped. (Author/CG)