The paper reviews recent history of study of human emotions in psychology and traces factors that have been responsible for a remarkable increase of interest in emotions, especially as regulators of human behaviors. Research on social referencing is reviewed, showing importance of social referencing with infants as young as 8.5 months. Clinical…

The author predicts that the affective movement in education will subside because the proponents of the movement have failed to develop curricula and other materials for potential practitioners outside the movement. (HD)

Phenomenological analysis is restricted to particular problems and directed toward obtaining spontaneous descriptions of subjective experience. (Author)

A review of Cognition and Affect (Little, Brown, 1970) John S. Antrobus, Editor. (CK)

Teachers who attempt to make their courses meaningful to their students will communicate better with them. (CK)

Ways in which video has been incorporated into a classroom for autistic high schoolers at the Center for Adaptive Programming are described. The design of a lesson on feelings is presented to illustrate the use of video. (CL)

A discussion of creativity focuses on its relationship with other processes within the individual. The social or personal nature of creativity is noted, as are its adaptive, elaborative, or developmental facets. Implications for teaching include the need for understanding the importance or reconciling the emotional forces of creativity with…

Affect Abilities Training (AAT) illustrates the kinds of concrete methods which can be used to further the affective development of persons with mental retardation. The objective of AAT is to develop those emotional behaviors upon which the individual (and society) place value while decreasing those responses which are counterproductive to…

The study related the role of the maternal figure to the affective behavior of the Mexican. Two hundred adolescents judged the concept of "Insult to the Mother" in relation to other similarly charged affective concepts, e.g., "death", "suicide", "drunkenness", etc. Results showed that "Insult to the…

Describes a typical disturbance of affectivity in adolescent schizophrenics in which the patient relates to the people around him or her in a superficial, socially acceptable, receptionist-like manner. (SS)

Analyzed preference for same-sex peers in 326 second through ninth graders. Found that same-sex preference occurred at all ages, decreased with age, was due more to a positive bias toward same-sex peers rather than negative bias against other-sex peers, and changed primarily as a function of liking for same-sex peers. Suggests that two processes…

Meta-analysis of 155 research reports that used one of three commitment scales (affective, continuance, or normative) found strong correlations between the scales and correlates of jobs satisfaction, job involvement, and organizational commitment. All three were negatively related to withdrawal and turnover. Perceived organizational support had…

Compared the perceptions of persuasiveness of text of undergraduate students (n=195) to those of text-based persuasion and conceptual change experts (n=7). Findings show overlap between the students' and experts' conceptions of persuasion and also show the importance of type and form of supporting evidence and the affective nature of the text.…