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encounter group

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encounter group: see group psychotherapy group psychotherapy, a means of changing behavior and emotional patterns, based on the premise that much of human behavior and feeling involves the individual's adaptation and response to other people.
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Encounter groups deliberately heighten peer pressure--isolating holdouts of a viewpoint and intimidating weaker individuals by ridiculing them, cursing at them, yelling at them, and ostracizing them until they "cave.
People can share their experiences by joining Festival Performance as a State of Encounter group on Facebook.
And, indeed, when I asked Yona if he would be interested in participating in encounter group meetings with Palestinians who were being interviewed for the study, he gave me a resounding "No
 
 
 
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