In an extension of an early social facilitation study, 80 female college students reproduced a partially learned Indian folktale before both large and small audiences. Subjects showed greater verbal production but less accuracy before the large audiences. (Author)

Report focuses on some over-uses of sensitivity training by showing that the technique is differentially effective for separate groups of people. (Author)

This paper describes an experiment involving the use of laboratory education (Bradford, Gibb, & Benne, 1964; Bennis & Schein, 1965) and was designed on the assumption that improvement of communication in managerial workgroups enhances task effectiveness. (Author)

A framework involving five elements--cause, change agent, change target, channel, and change strategy--provides a useful framework for social action analysis. (Author)

An attempt to provide in a high school a community where personally and socially worthwhile activity arises organically from the physical-social-psychic-spiritual environment. (Author/EA)

This article reviews developments in the small group training field, provides a brief historical perspective on group training and working definitions for some of the more frequently mentioned types of small groups and comments on research on professional and ethical issues. Comment by James D. Beck follows. (Author/CJ)

Suggests the feasibility of teaching an English or social studies unit on irrational crowd behavior; recommended resources for such a unit are listed and described. (RD)

The data seem to indicate that there is less role conflict between and among disciplines that are oriented exclusively to a school as compared with services that may embrace more than one school and have some community orientations. The utility of the paradigm merits further exploration. (Author)

Four mechanisms of social control are analyzed in relationship to a typology of school staffs which in several respects resemble primary groups. Findings suggest the co-variation of structures of colleague relations and colleague social controls in elementary schools. (Author)