A psychologist suggests that in the coming years encounter groups and other techniques of the human potential movement will penetrate all aspects of our culture, as it allows people to get more in touch with their subjective inner experiences and to learn ways to communicate their experiences to others. (Author)

The purpose of group counseling was to promote new social learning involving identification with other group members, leading to expanded field perception and insight into the projection of thoughts, feelings and motives onto others. (Author)

Personal accounts of innovative social arrangements in two communes focus on community responsibility for child rearing. (NH)

The basic dynamic core of social change, the adoption and diffusion processes, evolves around an innovation. The tendency to adopt an innovation related to communicability of the innovation, its compatibility with other practices, its publicness, and the reversibility of its effects. (Author)

To explain social change, one must know not only about the aspiration level of individuals or about the resources available in the environment, but the coordination over time, of these two elements in relation to each other. (Author)

Games are described as techniques for structuring a group situation to assist in acquiring cohesiveness. Discussed briefly are the Who Am I Game," the Lemon Game," the Face the Wall Game," and Would This Person Game." (Author/CJ)

Presents experimental evidence showing that the desirability of an alternative choice increases when one's freedom to choose it is threatened; this reactance will be reduced if freedom is reinstated by another person; and desirability will also be reduced if another person under similar threat manages to restore his own freedom. (RW)

A comparison between a T-Group course and a more traditional human relations course indicated the following findings: the T-Group course showed more here-and-now behavior, more group dynamics and less organizational dynamics content, more involvement, more perceived transfer of learning, and more percieved comfort with feelings. (Author/BY)

Examines the contradictory effects of ethnic ideology and social class on the cohesiveness of groups of poor people, as founded on different bases. (JM)