CHANGES TOWARD SELF-ACTUALIZATION.

The article discusses two studies regarding the differential effects of the duration of time spent in encounter groups on the responses of participants to Personal Orientation Inventory (POI) and the level to which changes are retained. The first study focused on the experiences of brief versus extended growth group, while the second focused on the differential effect of distributed against massed group experiences. The study showed the fallacy over the use of multiple t-tests.