Contextual perceptions, motivational beliefs, and achievements of 389 female high school students in Seoul, Korea were examined longitudinally during an academic year. Contextual perceptions and motivational beliefs were assessed within the contexts of general school learning and specific school subjects. Overall, personal motivation beliefs were…

In this communication we analyze a dichotomy that pervades research on attitude in mathematics education: the classification of attitude as positive/negative. After highlighting the ambiguity of the term "positive", and some problems related to it, we suggest that the positive/negative dichotomy is too simplistic to take into account the deep…

This paper reports on conversations with Palestinian youth to help gain insight into their perceptions of the ongoing events of the Intifada. Through the children's responses the study determined that they search for their national identity throughout the struggles. Many have gotten actively involved, which has added to their confidence. During…

A program was developed for the improvement of social competence in general among professionals with the improvement of the accuracy of decoding emotions from facial expressions as the specific focus. It was integrated as a laboratory experience into traditional lectures at two German universities where studies were conducted to assess the…

A tool for measuring attitudes in the social studies classroom helps the teacher observe changes in the affective domain. (Author/KM)

Classroom techniques and material usage can change student attitudes and the concept that American society, and American schools as a microcosm of that society have become one in which to be real, to extend oneself for others is the exception, not the rule. (JB)

The investigator undertook to clarify the survival goal (physical and psychological) in relation to cultural survival (in general, the sum total of moral values of individuals and social groups). An important conclusion appears to be that clarification of end goals proposed (course of action aimed at resolution of conflict) is desirable.…

Direct observation of workers in an occupation is the best source of input to performance goals, even in occupations involving the affective domain. (Editor)

Experiments with congenitally deaf children are used to investigate the relationship of language to thought and to affectivity, and the effects of environmental deprivation on intelligence. (DD)

Isolates and tries to explain a phenomenon called the altruistic paradox, which refers to the fact that mankind individually and collectively can be both cruel and kind at one and the same time. (Author/JM)

Although theories of learning which stress the role of reinforcement can help us understand altruistic behaviors, it seems clear that a more complete comprehension calls for an expansion of our notions of learning, such that they incorporate affect and cognition. (Author/JM)

The developmental hypothesis that behavioral differences between subjects in the two temporal separation conditions would decline over grades was supported by the data. (Author)

This study addresses itself to a determinant of the MUM effect - namely communicator mood, and, as well, the interaction between communicator and recipient. (Author/RK)

The author supports the theory that one of the important relationships between literature and knowledge is the language of literature. (MM)