The experiment was designed to test the effects of covert behavior upon the verbal expression of emotional words contained in a TAT-like story. Subjects were 63 college students. The first independent variable, "self-regulation," consisted of three levels: (a) a no self-monitoring condition, (b) a self-monitoring condition, and (c) a…

Reconstructing media research so that generalizable knowledge can be produced requires an increased emphasis on attributes of media which interact with individual differences to effect learning. In order to accomplish this, media researchers must make a distinction between research "with" media and research "on" media. Privious efforts to…

Motivation to do good work in reading is a learned behavior. Values involve beliefs and worth and are likewise learned. Youngsters, particularly boys, are actually establishing one kind of hierarchy about values in their minds for school purposes but live according to another when they are out of school. An attempt must be made to correct this…

Issues concerned with the widespread application of psychological theory and research to childhood education are discussed. Educational programs based on behavioral and cognitive psychological theories are compared in terms of the values they communicate to children. The innovative early childhood programs of the 60's which focused on reducing…

Psysiological and behavioral indices of emotional arousal and mood during performance in a simulation game were investigated. The hypotheses tested were: (1) there will be attitude change following participation in the social simulation game, Ghetto; (2) this change in attitude will be related to the players' emotional involvement in the game as…

This investigation was designed to shed light on the study of literature by focusing on the reader's affective understandings and by using the semantic differential (S.D.) to measure affective meaning. Initially, an experimental group of 49 advanced senior high school students and a comparison group of 53 average senior high students used the S.D.…

The lives of Americans today are ruled by interlocking corporations. These corporations together present only one kind of life as viable: the consumer's life. Television is their main means of presenting this view. One cannot choose something he does not know about, and many Americans are not sufficiently informed of the alternatives to make an…

This study sought to ascertain how teachers and students interpret non-verbal cues in the form of visuo-gestural channel expressions by having them assign affective meaning to such expressions depicted photographically. Subjects were 377 students and 19 teachers from two elementary schools: one, urban and characterized as low socioeconomic status;…

A study was conducted in rural Maryland which utilized a 3-stage panel design with experimental and matched control groups. The questions to which answers were sought were: (1) What specific changes are achieved over time by nutrition aides visiting rural poor mothers in their homes? (2) Is there a point of diminishing returns with home visits?…

This paper deals with two specific issues: the explanation of moral conduct and the structure of moral character. The purpose of the paper is to describe a new psychological perspective on moral conduct, and to discuss some empirical findings which follow from this perspective. Morality is regarded here as a natural phenomenon which considers…

An experimental task with accompanying apparatus was developed for use in the study of developmental and cultural differences in the cooperative-competitive behavior of children in a small Mexican town and in California. Two groups of 20 Mexican children (aged 7-8 and 10-11), from an elementary school in a town in Baja, California, Mexico, were…

This paper attempts to show a one-to-one relationship between the various activities involved in dramatic interpretation and specific language arts skills: reading, writing, speaking, and listening. The skills listed in this model reflect both the cognitive and the affective domains and include concentration, perception, factual recall,…

In order to investigate the process of nonverbal communication of emotions in a simulated intercultural context, videotapes were made in which two white Americans (one male and one female) responded to paragraphs which evoked the following emotions: sadness, disgust, anger, surprise, happiness, and fear. These portrayals were then viewed by male…

The theoretical soundness of affective education and the schools' responsibility for identifying, recording, and judging affective change is defended. Teachers should receive formal affective training. Essentials of a good training program, sources for locating one, and suggestions for convincing others of the need for affective education are…

A more lasting change in smoking behavior and attitude results from a smoking intervention program that uses affective educational activities such as values clarification and discussions pertaining to feelings and emotions as they relate to cigarette smoking. (MM)