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Selden, Annie; McKee, Kerry; Selden, John – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2010
In this largely theoretical article, we discuss the relation between a kind of affect, behavioural schemas and aspects of the proving process. We begin with affect as described in the mathematics education literature, but soon narrow our focus to a particular kind of affect--nonemotional cognitive feelings. We then mention the position of feelings…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Mathematics Education, Advanced Courses, Mathematical Logic
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Miller, Anita – Brain and Cognition, 2007
The social neuroscience of child and adolescent depression is inherently multidisciplinary. Depressive disorders beginning early in life can have serious developmental and functional consequences. Psychopathology research has described depression's defining clinical and contextual features, and intervention research has characterized its response…
Descriptors: Psychopathology, Depression (Psychology), Children, Adolescents
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Farley, Lisa – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2007
In this essay, the author offers a reading of both Sigmund Freud's and Madelaine's Acropolis encounters to propose an "affective conflict" at play in historical relations more generally. On the one side of the conflict, the author explores at some length Freud's (1939) theory of history as "archaic inheritance," which takes the form of psychical…
Descriptors: Memory, Educational Research, Conflict, Anxiety
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Huesmann, L. Rowell – Journal of Social Issues, 1986
Argues that the effect of media violence on individual differences in aggression is primarily the result of a cumulative learning process during childhood. Presents a developmental theory holding that a child's repeated viewing of media violence, in combination with other factors, can culminate in aggressive behavior patterns (including…
Descriptors: Aggression, Antisocial Behavior, Attribution Theory, Child Development
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Geen, Russell G.; Thomas, Susan L. – Journal of Social Issues, 1986
Reviews experimental studies and field investigations of the influence of violence in the mass media on aggressive behavior. Relates this research to recent developments in cognitive psychology. Suggests that the cognitive-neoassociationist hypothesis provides the best explanation for the overall findings and may subsume other hypotheses…
Descriptors: Aggression, Antisocial Behavior, Attribution Theory, Child Development
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Malamuth, Neil M.; Briere, John – Journal of Social Issues, 1986
Presents a model hypothesizing indirect effects of media sexual violence on aggression against women. Suggests that cultural factors and individual variables interact to affect thought patterns and other responses that may lead to antisocial behavior. Discusses relevance of model to current research trends, including laboratory and naturalistic…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Development, Cognitive Structures, Elementary Secondary Education