Do Personal Growth Laboratories Represent an Alternative Culture?
- 1 January 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
- Vol. 8 (1) , 7-28
- https://doi.org/10.1177/002188637200800101
Abstract
The rhetoric of personal growth programs represents, as Shepard suggests (J.A.B.S. 6 (3), 259-266), an alternative culture. However, when one attempts to study the actual behavior of participants in a laboratory, preliminary research suggests that it may bb closer to the established culture than to a "clearer vision of a better life." A theoretical framework is here proposed in an attempt to explain the apparent discrepancy between the actual behavior of participants and what they say they experienced and learned in personal growth programs.Keywords
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