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Foglia, Victoria; Zhang, Haichao; Walsh, Jennifer A.; Rutherford, M. D. – Developmental Psychology, 2022
When perceiving emotional facial expressions, adults use a template-matching strategy, comparing the perceived face with a stored representation. A rejection of unnaturally exaggerated faces is characteristic of this strategy because the exaggerated expressions do not match the stored template. In contrast, a rule-based perceptual strategy (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Perception, Children, Adolescents
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Okur-Berberoglu, Emel – International Electronic Journal of Environmental Education, 2017
Environmental awareness is evaluated related to cognitive and affective areas so it might be considered one of the important points in order to predict environmental behavioural change. One of the behavioural change models is ecological dynamics model (EDM) and this model's characteristics overlap with ecopedagogy-based outdoor experiential…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Experiential Learning, Environmental Education, Behavior Change
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Martínez-Sierra, Gustavo; García González, María del Socorro – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2014
The aim of this qualitative research is to identify Mexican high school students' emotional experiences in mathematics classes. In order to obtain the data, focus group interviews were carried out with 22 students. The data analysis is based on the theory of the cognitive structure of emotions (Ortony, Clore & Collins, 1988) that specifies the…
Descriptors: High School Students, Emotional Experience, Mathematics Education, Problem Solving
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Curseu, Petru L.; Janssen, Steffie E. A.; Raab, Jorg – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2012
The current paper combines arguments from the social capital and group cognition literature to explain two different processes through which communication network structures and intra group conflict influence groups' cognitive complexity (GCC). We test in a sample of 44 groups the mediating role of intra group conflict in the relationship between…
Descriptors: Conflict, Cognitive Structures, Rural Areas, Social Networks
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Martínez-Sierra, Gustavo; González, María del Socorro García – Research in Mathematics Education, 2014
The aim of this qualitative research is to identify Mexican high school students' emotional experiences in mathematics classes. In order to obtain the data, focus group interviews were carried out with 22 students. The data analysis is based on the theory of the cognitive structure of emotions, which specifies the eliciting conditions for each…
Descriptors: High School Students, Emotional Experience, Mathematics Education, Qualitative Research
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Andersen, Rachel J.; Evans, Ian M.; Harvey, Shane T. – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2012
To explore children's perceptions of their teachers' feelings in everyday classroom contexts, the authors conducted focus groups with New Zealand primary (elementary) school children to discuss what they observed about positive classroom teachers' interactional style and emotional behavior. Seventy-nine students between age 8 and 12 years, from…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Teaching Styles, Teacher Characteristics, Student Attitudes
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Jackendoff, Ray; Lerdahl, Fred – Cognition, 2006
We explore the capacity for music in terms of five questions: (1) What cognitive structures are invoked by music? (2) What are the principles that create these structures? (3) How do listeners acquire these principles? (4) What pre-existing resources make such acquisition possible? (5) Which aspects of these resources are specific to music, and…
Descriptors: Interaction, Cognitive Structures, Music, Affective Behavior