Discusses the difference between sentimentality and compassion and provides various literary excerpts, drawings, photographs, and a list of additional resources that can be used in the classroom to develop compassion among students. (GC)

Argues that affective development is critical to successful learning. Presents a developmental model based on the premise that teachers can understand students' feelings by observing classroom behaviors. Describes the behaviors corresponding to the attending, receiving, responding, valuing, and commitment stages of affective development and…

The new direction in research on the home educational environment is away from prediction based on indirect, static measures such as socioeconomic status. Instead, attention is focused on the teaching and modeling behavior in the home. Positive changes in the home environment often produce increases in children's school achievement. (RL)

The University of Rochester Child and Family Study is a longitudinal prospective study of 145 families in which one or both parents has been hospitalized for a major psychiatric disorder. A variety of assessments are made of the parents, the index child (who is male and age four, seven, or ten), and the family as a whole. (Author)

Male subjects (N=20) were exposed to a humorous or nonhumorous tape recording and subsequently given the opportunity to give money to a needy person. Results indicated humor subjects contributed significantly more than did nonhumor subjects. Humor subjects also evidenced more positive affective state. (Author)

This study investigated the anorectic's experience in daily living using the Experience Sampling Method. Results suggest that anorectics spend more time alone and experience lower average affect than other young single women. (Author/GK)

It is suggested that achievement of major aesthetic education goals can be directly facilitated by engaging students in historical activities. Examinations of the concepts of self-consciousness, judgment, imagination, particularity, and change are presented, demonstrating the similarities between aesthetic education processes and historical…

Investigated the relationships between the daily occurrence of aversive events, depressed mood, and the enjoyment of pleasant events in a sample of depressed patients. Significant associations were found between depressed mood and unpleasant events, and between unpleasant events and the pleasantness of pleasant events. (Author)

A word preference format was used to investigate reactions to verbal stimuli of suicidal and nonsuicidal persons. Words with aggressive or submissive denotative meanings significantly differentiated the two groups. The word "suicide" was selected at a higher frequency level by suicidal individuals when compared to their nonsuicidal counterparts.…

Using the objective technique of increased mark-directed responses as evidence of self-recognition, this study investigated the relationship between cognitive and affective development among young retarded children. (Author/MP)

Compares the responses of 14 child abusers and a matched group of nonabusers to videotapes of crying and smiling infants. Psychophysiological and subjective self-report measures were taken. (SS)

The author suggests that the relationship between art and religion is far closer than either the theorists of aesthetics or the students of theology commonly suppose, so close that the one may easily be confused with the other. He considers the relationship under three rubrics: knowing, being, and doing. (Author/SJL)

Lack of effort-perceived controllability of need for help-anger-neglect and lack of ability-perceived uncontrollability-pity-help form two constellations. There was also evidence of an attribution-affect-action motivational sequence, in which thoughts determine what we feel and feelings determine what we do. (Author/CP)

To investigate the involvement of spatial and social density in the appreciation of humor, adolescents participated under conditions of high and low spatial density. High spatial density was found to significantly diminish appreciation of three humor types. Significant sex and age differences in reactivity to spatial density were also found.…

The role that the counselor assumes during termination is critical for the overall success of therapy. Counselors must be equipped to restate, clarify, reinforce, summarize and challenge. Personal involvement, enthusiasm, and realistic optimism by the counselor will improve client's self-understanding and will increase client receptivity to future…