An experiment was conducted to clarify the relations between affect and altruism by inducing affect directly. It was hypothesized that children who experienced positive affect would share more than controls, while those experiencing negative affect would share significantly less than controls. Ss were 25 girls and 18 boys from the second and third…

The objectives of this study were twofold: (1) to empirically identify and analyze trained and untrained observers' affective responses to a representative collection of paintings for the purpose of constructing art differential instruments, and (2) to use these instruments to objectively identify and evaluate the major affective factors and…

Most studies of interpersonal attraction and rejection have come to the unremarkable conclusion that persons who are perceived as similar to one's self in beliefs and values are liked better than those perceived as dissimilar. This experiment was designed to vary in an orthogonal design (1) perceived similarity between a subject and another…

This study sought to develop new measures of children's understanding and tolerance of affective qualities, and to relate those variables to the development of an aesthetic orientation toward visual art. The use of these new measures in the present research leads to the following conclusions: (1) No regular age change appears in the correlation…

This project studied pupil creativity in terms of the interdependence of the affective and cognitive domains. The relationships of the two facets were studied over the period of a full school year with 945 fifth grade pupils from a small urban district. Over the period of the study, growth was apparent in both domains. Parallel testings of the two…

Language materials of the Language Improvement to Facilitate Education (LIFE) Project are described as carefully sequenced curriculum materials which use visuals to educate deaf children in the affective domain. The affective domain is defined as the area of human experiences related to interest, appreciation, attitudes, adjustments and values;…

This study first investigates the effects of group structure on collective projections in groups, then examines how collective projections feed back and affect group structure. It examines the effects of having a deviant in a group on group projections and responses. (Author)

This study further investigates the validity of the McMillan Affective Relationship Scale (MARS) by (1) examining its relationship to other commonly used scales; (2) determining whether it was sensitive to change over time for encounter group participants; and (3) attempting to determine whether pretesting on MARS was a possible source of…

A cognitive analysis of loneliness is presented. Loneliness is defined as occuring when a person's achieved social relations are less numerous or less satisfying than the person desires. Factors that cause loneliness by altering the person's achieved or desired social relations are discussed. (Author)

In light of the significance of widowhood as a precipitator of loneliness in adult life, research in the areas of family sociology, psychology and social gerontology is surveyed with a view to illuminating the problem of loneliness in widowhood and old age. (Author)

This study evaluated the hypothesis that affective components of creativity (attitudes, values, interest, motivations) may be strengthened in a university creativity course. A two-group, two-test design was used. For each class, the after-training creativity test scores were significantly higher than the before-training scores of the other class.…

In this article, the author distinguishes values from motives, then further separates instrumental values from intrinsic ones. He discusses how both are grounded and suggests how they can be identified by the counselor. (Author)

This study investigated the temporal orientation of delinquents and nondelinquents while controlling institutionalization. Four groups were selected: institutionalized delinquents; institutionalized nondelinquents; noninstitutionalized delinquents; and noninstitutionalized nondelinquents. The affective attitudes of the nondelinquents toward the…

This study examined the role of emotional catharsis in brief emotive psychotherapy and its differential effects within three time frames. The findings are seen as supporting the contention that within a specific time frame emotional catharsis can lead to certain positive outcomes in brief emotive psychotherapy. (Author)