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4.19 THE JOHARI WINDOW

The Johari Window is a model for explaining the different ways
people approach self-awareness and feedback. It was designed
by two Californian psychologists, Jo Luft and Harry Ingham
(hence Jo-Hari) and originally published in 1959.
Explain the Model, Please
Originally, Luft and Ingham devised a psychological tool for selfhelp groups in which the subject and his or her observers were
given a list of 56 adjectives. The list included words like "bold",
"cheerful", "confident", "sentimental", "sympathetic" and so on.
Both the subject and observers then selected 5 or 6 adjectives

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