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Notes on Personal Feedback in Sensitivity Training
Author(s) -
Polsky Howard W.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
sociological inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.446
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1475-682X
pISSN - 0038-0245
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-682x.1971.tb01138.x
Subject(s) - sensitivity training , sensitivity (control systems) , training (meteorology) , movement (music) , sociology , psychology , epistemology , cognitive psychology , social psychology , geography , engineering , aesthetics , philosophy , electronic engineering , meteorology
Over the last 25 years the sensitivity training movement has steadily expanded. Growing out of the behavioral sciences, selected interrelated concepts underlie its development and distinguish it sharply from group therapy. The central role of feedback is carefully defined and described and its impact upon individual members as well as upon the evolving group culture are explicated in detail.