Experiment revealed that the number of arguments had a more significant effect on individual shifts than did interpersonal comparison. (SP)

This article concerning structuring in group counseling discusses a type of structuring which allows a great deal of freedom and permissiveness within the group and at the same time provides a framework within which the group can begin to function. (Author)

It was concluded that participation may be associated with favorable role attitudes through different motive-attainment mechanisms in the group decision-making process. (Author)

Study sought (1) to manipulate communication quality in problem-solving groups, (2) to determine whether groups actually experienced communication of varying quality, and (3) to determine whether groups experiencing high quality communication produced a high quality product.'' (Author)

Author compares and analyzes the objectives and methods of T groups and discussion ( learning'') groups; he finds the latter more open, with reality less centered in the life of the group.'' (Author/SP)

The author describes the group interview, the meeting of recruiter and students for what could be an honest, objective, and stimulating challenge. (Author)

Describes a series of strategies that enabled a nationwide government program, the Teacher Corps, to survive, despite formidable external and internal constraints, and suggests some general patterns that may apply to other cases. Comments by Richard A. Graham and Roland L. Warren. (Author)

This is an example of how author experimented in systematically using his understanding of T Group phenomena to conceptualize and to point to a sequence of phases which might be optimum for a particular group in accomplishing its learning objectives, and illustrates one technique for shifting group's focus from one issue to next. (Author)

Changing culture requires interventions invalidating old processes and conditions that facilitate the creation of new self validating processes. The personal growth laboratory becomes a temporary system of new self validating processes. Prepared for a conference on Intensive Small Group Process sponsored by Foundations Fund for Research in…

Suggestions for effective group communications are made briefly for the hearing impaired member of the group, the group leader, and the hearing members of the group. (CB)

Therapist-led, leaderless, and alternating sequence sessions were compared. Leaderless sessions exhibited more socially oriented behavior than the therapist-led, while the therapist-led meetings were considered more speculative and confrontive, more concerned with group relationships, and more pertinent and task-oriented than the leaderless…