Article analyses the nature of artificial barriers which a technological society sets up between people by emphasizing product rather than product-as-a-part-of-process. Author looks at encounter groups attempts to break down these barriers. (HB)

Before long, the lines of demarcation between studies of cognitive development and studies of social development will have been blurred beyond distinction. Students will no longer identify themselves as studies of intellectual development or students of social development. (Author)

The importance of talkativeness or the relative frequency of contributing to task interaction was examined as a factor which determines person perception. Quantity but not quality of task contributions was significantly related to the attribution of creativity and influence over others. (Author/JB)

Study showed that the conservation responses acquired through participation in a problem-solving group are enduring and generalizable. (Authors)

There's more to small group instruction than just fewer students, point out the authors who describe several techniques teachers should employ to make their small group teaching effective for learners. (Editor)

Significant positive changes in self actualization were attained in members of both intensive residential sensitivity training laboratories and nonintensive nonresidential sensitivity training laboratories. Affection compatibility was the prime interpersonal variable associated with self actualization gains. (Author)

Misbehavior rate in classes of institutionalized retarded adolescents dropped when consequences were administered to the entire class for individual misbehaviors. (KW)

Logs are presented to communicate what was observed and felt by author while attending a graduate class in group process. (Author)

To learn if the experience of small group democracy in a training laboratory generalizes to the more broadly theoretical issues of ideology, a before and after experimental design was utilized at a college training laboratory to gather more direct information. Results showed highly significant shifts in democratic directions on each of four scales…

Comparisons between trained and untrained groups with respect to their performance on the 12 Angry Men decision making task indicated that trained groups consistently performed more effectively than untrained on measures of decision quality, utilization of superior resources, and creativity. (Author)

A recent proposal by the National Training Laboratories Institute for Applied Behavioral Science suggests that meaningful technics to lessen student stress and channel creative energy offer promise of relieving campus unrest. (Editor)

Feedback in a trust-destroying portion of a problem-solving discussion" was found to be significantly more disruptive than feedback in a trust-building portion of that same discussion." (Author/RD)

To help determine relationships between certain personality variables and conforming judgment, and difference in conforming judgments among differently structured groups, prison immates were studies for the personality variables of IQ (California Capacity Questionnaire), agreement response set (Couch and Kenniston Scale), and dogmatism (Form E,…

This experiment investigates the relation between differences in strategy and performance in a variety of interaction situations. Accommodative and exploitative behavior tended to be alike in males and females. Situational variables studied included intragroup vs. integroup negotiation, three different games, and three sets of contrasting…