CENTRAL TO THIS DISCUSSION OF LABORATORY TRAINING IS THE PROPOSITION THAT, IN DESIGNING LABORATORY EXPERIENCES, ONE MUST CONSIDER THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE NATURE OF THE HUMAN PERSONALITY. BASIC NEEDS FOR SELF AWARENESS, SELF ACCEPTANCE, AND INTERPERSONAL COMPETENCE ARE MET THROUGH GROUP, INTERGROUP, AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS. SELF ACCEPTANCE IN PARTICULAR…

Preservice teacher interns learned from direct, first-hand practical experiences rather than just from theoretical ideas, the kinds of feelings a new and stressful situation may elicit. (NQ)

Four sessions of a program for business executives were studied to compare effects of T Group training versus a lecture discussion approach to interpersonal relations in organizations. Both programs produced equal change in participants' beliefs about effective interpersonal behavior. T Group training showed greater effects on perceptions of self…

A laboratory learning intervention in a new high school had a durable effect upon both faculty and students; (a) teachers exhibited greater interpersonal openness and acceptance of conflict, and (b) students saw the faculty as more receptive and themselves as more responsible and coactive, both in and out of the classroom. (Author)

The equal employment opportunity sensitivity workshop seems to be a useful training device for getting an organization started on developing black and white change agents. A report on the establishment of such a workshop at the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Command (TACOM). Includes charts of design, characteristics, analysis of results, program…

Laboratory education is discussed from three viewpoints: (1) as an instrument for adult resocialization, (2) as an educational challenge which promotes personal but not social reconstruction, and (3) as a value medium which operates against the intellectual and independence modes. Criticism is focused on what the laboratory education technique…

Describes a research project examining non-professional knowledge of and attitudes to sensitivity training groups. A questionnaire was distributed to college students, police officers and members of a group dynamics class. Results indicate that all three groups had fairly positive attitudes towards sensitivity training. (NG)

This study was concerned with investigating the effects of human relations laboratory experiences on the interpersonal behavior of male and female college students. (Author)

Author describes 6 behavioral modes which constitute a transferable behavioral perspective from T Group Experiences. (Editor/MB)

Examines the role of interpersonal needs for control and affection in influencing members' attitudinal reactions to the trainer and the group. Results indicate no support for the two-stage, authority-intimacy sequence suggested by much of the research on group development. (Author)

In recent years there has been some evidence of a resurgence of interest in experiential groupwork methods such as T-groups among cooperative and community development workers, feminists, and those concerned with heightening sensitivity to social problems. Two adult educators who believed that experiential laboratory methods can enable students to…

In training facilitators for laboratory groups, also known as T-groups or encounter groups, the majority of group facilitators and therapists advocate an experiential apprenticeship in an ongoing group. However, the actions of an inexperienced facilitator trainee may have a negative effect upon the members of the group. The author experimented…

This paper uses the Interpersonal Perception Method (IPM) to analyze a single episode in a group's experience. The authors feel that such an approach is much more useful than the more usual trait analysis in understanding those experiences which will mediate the group's functioning. (NG)