This article describes the longitudinal study on which all of the articles in this issue ofSmall Group Research are based. It begins with a discussion of why studying groups over time and under changing conditions is important. It then describes the conditions, variables, and procedures of the 13-week longitudinal study (called the JEMCO Workshop study) in detail and offers brief descriptions of the focus of each of the otherfive articles in this issue.
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