There has been consider able discussion about the ethical aspects of the group movement, which includes a variety of groups going under such names as T-groups, sensitivity groups and encounter groups. However, little if any progress has been made in developing guidelines or standards. There are at least two reasons for this lack of progress. One is that the problem is an exceedingly difficult o...

While focus group discussions have become popular across the communication research field, some researchers pointed out importance of studying interactions within groups. However, most used a qualitative approach and mostly explored interaction between participants or moderator. This study claimed there might be third unobservable that occurs structured discussion topics. An affiliation network...