Examined the superiority of humor as it applied to the formal and informal status structures of six small, task-oriented groups in business and health care. In the more professional and highly trained groups in health care, high-status individuals were integral parts of the humor network and enjoyed no particular "joking monopoly."…

Interpersonal feedback is an important component of most group therapy approaches. This review identifies feedback as a multidimensional rather than a unidimensional construct. The literature is reviewed in terms of acceptance of feedback, effects of receiving feedback, willingness to deliver feedback, and therapeutic effects of delivering…

Examined both group process and group tasks, exploring their relationship to group member satisfaction in a group of 16 college students. Results showed participation by all group members resulted in higher member satisfaction and a relationship between task accomplishment and member satisfaction. (BH)

Examines the effectiveness of wilderness labs as a medium for developing management skills. Wilderness labs involve taking managers out of the corporate comfort zone into the outdoors to confront physical challenges. (JOW)

Communication is the process by which all the pieces of the living world find their relationships to the other pieces to form larger wholes and to enable the living world to grow, adapt, and survive. This article explores cooperation, as it refers to the matter of sharing communication in groups. (CB)

Describes and integrates a multidimensional approach for measuring and understanding small group process. Reviews the construct of cohesion and applies the multidimensional approach to evidence, both conceptual and empirical, resulting from studies of cohesion. Discusses observations and conclusions regarding cohesion and its current state. (BH)

Presents a model to remedy the problem of groups with poor cohesion, energy, and interaction. The Dynamic Commitment Design promotes group growth through the "fish-bowl" effect. Members currently committed to therapy who wish to make contact form the inner circle, while those wishing to withdraw move outside the circle. (BH)

The essential nature of drama is a liberating act of imagination, of self-transcendence. A session is described in which the class maintained the delicate balance of dual consciousness and focused its attention and empathy on an illusory but possible world, creating and being responsible for the meaning of its construction. (MT)

Reviews the software package, "Interaction Analyses," which makes the observation of communication transactions--commonly described as PROANA5--possible with a microcomputer. (PD)

The principal's job is to encourage and facilitate cooperation and problem solving. The team concept can be used to improve education by developing consistent processes that involve many people and ensure group development of solutions to problems. (MD)

Focuses on interracial dynamics among Black and White participants in a Southern rural senior center. Observational and interview data revealed that (1) general cooperation was interspersed with sporadic racial antagonism and (2) cooperation was promoted at first through shared activities and later through shared hostility toward the center…

Reviews the available research that does not find development in group processes. Concluded that researchers should no longer try to answer the question of whether groups change but should identify significant differences and similarities in group development among various groups and types of groups. (LLL)

Describes focusing as a process of therapeutic change where one silently tries to discriminate the bodily felt sense of a situation or a problem. Presents examples of the focusing process in the therapeutic context of a group and explores implications of its use. (LLL)

Presents the second part of a report on the matrix model for the study of small groups considering implications of the model and its translation into operational terms. Addresses primary group tasks such as identity formation, modes of relating, and reality adaptation. (LLL)

This study found that both male and female members of committees with a male majority were more likely than committees with a female majority to believe that men have greater leadership skills and that women are elected primarily to represent women rather than all workers. (Author/SK)