Investigates the attitudes of 340 Israeli government employees toward their work and the introduction of the computer. Three behavior modalities--affective, cognitive, and instrumental--of five referent groups are examined both for work and for computer introduction. (Author/IRT)

Health educators should be aware of people as growth aspiring, with a basic nature of goodness, and that individuals need to experience those qualities within themselves which produce health and a zest for living. (JD)

For millennia, emotional states have been viewed as avoidable impediments to rational thinking (Ellis & Newton, 2000). Several reasons have been pointed out. The lack of consensus of the definition on emotion that tend to conflict with each other was suggested as a main reason (Price, 1998). Also the difficulty of research methodology such as…

For over half a century, researchers have attempted to specify the effects of childrearing in socially depriving environments on child development, specifically studying the development of children from institutions found to provide few social and emotional interactions between caregivers and children and comparing findings to those for…

Central to this dissertation is an attempt to investigate whether or not a single-sex environment has a positive impact upon girls' attitudes and beliefs, as they pertain to the learning of mathematics. All learners of mathematics are enveloped by the social practices pertaining to both mathematics and society at large. Underlying these social…

This project explores the use of narrative to mediate the delivery of information on the effects of harmful discrimination in a simulated environment that is intended to arouse empathy and inspire reflection. It focuses on the potential of instructional narrative simulation to change biased beliefs about homosexuality. "This just is!"…

Counselors, psychotherapists, and counselor educators completed a modified repertory test. Contrary to previous findings, presumed positive and negative affect role constructs of significant others did not produce significant differences. The role constructs--boss and person you'd like to help--previously presumed to be negative affect role…

A practical explication of learning packets, this article gives a useful example of format and a guide for evaluation. (Editor)

Affective education is more than isolated techniques, these authors say. They analyze one experiment in affective education and attempt to point out what went wrong. (Editor)

Describes the purpose of confluent education to increase not only the students' ability to take responsibility for their own learning but also for teachers to become aware of change. (MM)

The procedure presented here is designed to help children recognize that feelings and attitudes affect what a person sees; what one person sees is not necessarily the same as what another will see; what a person sees often determines how he behaves in a situation; and the way a person behaves influences the way others respond to him. (Author)

Personalizing and humanizing the educational process is a goal that is shared by teachers and counselors. Two procedures which improve human relations between teachers and students, and thereby facilitate the learning process, are discussed in this article. These two procedures are the C'' group and the DUSO program. (Author)

School systems in several European countries plan specifically for the moral education of students within the public school setting. (JB)

This study dealt with the question of white versus black superiority in learning, viewing such differences in sociocultural terms. (Author)

Do prior hedonic and excitational variations have influence on the appreciation of subsequently presented music? Implications for the manipulation of response to music and to other affect-producing communications through variations in prior stimulation are discussed. (Author/KM)