Warns that until schools give up their zeal for control, they will continue to wring the emotional life out of many children who will end up untouched by their involvement in school, life, or interpersonal relationships. (Author)

Argues that most adults do not have political attitudes and that once we realize this fact, we will be able to make more sense of attitude formation and change, of leader-follower relationships and of the public policy-making process. (Author/MB)

A description of how one group of six-year-olds used the medium of dance to express their emotions and reactions to the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. (DR)

Explains elements of helping children communicate: (1) recognize the need for child sending a message, (2) help him to put the message into language, (3) allow transmission of the message, and (4) decode the message. (DR)

Presents the procedures, results, and conclusions of a study designed to collect data on both affective and cognitive variables as well as the behaviors of teachers and students in several physics classes which followed an integrated multi-media, multi-modal teaching-learning system. Comparison was made with a control group of classes.…

Nonhandicapped undergraduates were questioned about their prior experiences with handicapped persons, length of that experience, and quality and type of the relationship. Length of contact with handicapped individuals was significantly correlated with perceived pleasantness of the relationship. Specific unidentified factors in affective tone may…

Teachers, as well as students, have difficulty distinguishing between cognitive and affective responses. In order for students to learn to identify their emotions, teachers need to learn to ask the right questions and use the right vocabulary. Suggestions for teachers are given. (IS)

Examines early phases of understanding of causes of moderately and extremely displaced aggression. Preschool and kindergarten children three to five years of age viewed eight videotaped episodes of displaced aggression. Comprehension was assessed by means of open-ended questions and forced-choice picture selections. (Author/RH)

A study sought to determine if a relationship existed between heterosexual college students' attitudes toward lesbianism and male homosexuality and their feelings about their own sexuality, including sex guilt. High sex guilt proved to be related to negative attitudes toward homosexuals of both sexes. (Authors/PP)

Seventy-five students projected their feelings in eight typical achievement situations. Each student described affective responses to one situation, varying in achievement outcome, task importance, and effort. The 2 x 2 x 2 analysis of variance for affective component scores indicated that perceptions of success/failure accounted for most of the…

Self-esteem's effect on the tendency to convey a false impression by hiding one's feelings behind a facade was studied in youth aged 8 to 19. Lower self-esteem was associated with the tendency to present a false front. Vulnerability to criticism, self-consciousness, fantasy, and age and gender differences are discussed. (Author/CM)

Comparison of 384 male and 91 female autistic children (three through eight years old) revealed that females as a group scored less well on intelligence tests. Boys also performed better than girls on eye-hand integration and perceptual tasks. Predictions of female superiority in affect and receptive vocabulary were not supported. (CL)