Examines the relationships between vocal activity and three other variables: attribution of quality contributions; perceived listening, and perceived understanding. Concludes that frequency and duration of speech serve as a major mediating variable in communicative relationships. (MH)

Outlines some activities and assumptions of organizational development in the schools. (IRT)

The Gross Self-Insight Scale was administered to an encounter group and a control group before and after the group experience. The scale was found to have very high reliabiltiy and moderately high validity. Observation of the encounter group members' behavior supported the change in the scale scores of group members. (SE)

This article examines and questions the objectives, materials, techniques, and teacher motivations of affective education. (BD)

Develops a method for predicting leadership behavior in small groups by integrating leadership theory and source valence concepts. (MH)

Although many similarities between black and Asian causes exist enabling these groups to identify with and cooperate with each other, the Asian groups will not be able to unite with the native groups in a similar fashion. The cultural identity problem, among others, is cited as a block to minority cooperation. (Author/AM)

Racism is said to be costly to whites because it encourages whites to fight blacks, and women to fight men for bigger shares of a small pie instead of uniting to secure fair shares for all in the larger pie. (Author/AM)

Suggests that it is erroneous to advocate that the rights and interests of each racial group and of each clique of national origin or religious orientation must be separately pursued if real results are to follow. (Author/AM)

Suggests that the decade of the 1970's is experiencing an uneasy equilibrium among three sets of rights--those of the individual, of disadvantaged groups, and of social institutions designed to serve a post-industrial society. No one of these rights are said to have been chosen for preference by American society. (Author/AM)

College students (N=27) were assigned to a time-extended or a marathon group or a control condition to evaluate the effects of encounter experiences on self-perception and interpersonal behavior. Both experimental groups showed significantly greater changes in self-perceptions from pretest to posttest than the control group. (Author)

Elaborates the virtues of using group dynamics to teach communication in the college English class. (RB)

Family reconstruction is an imaginative process of family therapy whereby in a day's time a person gets connected to his or her family roots in a new and viable way leading to inner strength and wholeness. In family reconstruction, the person who does the reconstruction is called the Explorer. Within a group of people, the Explorer (who previously…

A study examining small group performance replicated and extended a previous study by L. Kelly and R. L. Duran to reanalyze their operationalization of cohesiveness. To test the hypotheses of the original study and to explore questions about using the polarization index as an indication of group cohesiveness, the study used a large number of…

Because of a multiplicity of approaches to small group argument, research in this area often needs to be summarized, condensed, and redirected. Researchers have identified the rational, cognitive and interactive components of argumentation, and have demonstrated that arguments can take several forms and fulfill a variety of functions. The result…