Johari window research paper

Joe Luft’s original model contained four quadrants that represented the total person in relation to other persons. These four quadrants also define the essential features of the New Johari Window.

The Johari window is a simple and useful tool for self-awareness training, personality development, interpersonal communication, team development, group dynamics and intergroup relations. It is also known as the disclosure/feedback model of self-awareness.

Bergquist extends the original concepts offered by the Johari Window co- author (Joseph Luft) by introducing other models of intrapersonal and interpersonal processes and recent research findings that reveal many of the most important dynamics operating in this “unconscious” realm of interpersonal relationship.

In this excerpt from an upcoming book that updates a widely known and used model of interpersonal relationships (the “Johari Window”) the author focuses on the fourth quadrant of the Window which deals with aspects of self and interpersonal relationships that are known neither to self or other.