The purpose of this research was to investigate the nature of listeners' attitudes toward foreign-accented speech and the manner in which those attitudes are formed. This study measured 165 participants' implicit and explicit attitudes toward US- and foreign-accented audio stimuli. Implicit attitudes were measured with an audio Implicit…

People are capable of thinking about the future, the past, remote locations, another person's perspective, and counterfactual alternatives. Without denying the uniqueness of each process, it is proposed that they constitute different forms of traversing psychological distance. Psychological distance is egocentric: Its reference point is the self…

A kindergarten teacher describes how she uses a puppet to help children speak about their feelings and listen to each other. (MT)

Hypothesizes that stimulus exposure with consistency and redundancy enhances favorability, while exposure with inconsistency and change lowers favorability. The overall frequency effect suggests that inconsistent and changing contiguous associates impair, not reverse, the exposure-favorability relationship. (MB)

Reviews research on prosocial behaviors (kindnesses) in children. Emphasizes emotional factors, modeling, and moral principles in the development of prosocial behavior. Discusses the relationship of kindness to cognitive and social behavior. Editor/DR

Laughing and smiling responses of 12 moderately retarded adolescents were significantly correlated with mental age and with the teacher's prediction of student responses in both situations, with the latter measure providing ecological validity to the findings. (Author)

Defines and describes affective aggression among adolescents based upon primary research. Provides model of affective aggression as a means of delineating the functional and observable components. Based upon these components, various interventions are provided as means of altering aggression in adolescents. (Author/NB)

Describes the affective, volitional face of the zone of proximal development. Suggests that the interpersonal character of the zone of proximal development closely resembles a caring encounter. Shows links between caring and the notion of the con-construction of knowledge. (SLD)

Background and objectives: Whereas injury to the left hemisphere induces aphasia, injury to the right hemisphere's perisylvian region induces an impairment of emotional speech prosody (affective aprosodia). Left-sided medial frontal lesions are associated with reduced verbal fluency with relatively intact comprehension and repetition…

This essay begins by addressing concerns raised by Megan Boler regarding empathy's conceptual ambiguities and pedagogical effectiveness. This will be followed by a call for a systematic pedagogical approach to educating for empathy based on dialogue. I will argue that in order to be effective, empathic pedagogy should provide students with a means…

Emotional events are more organized and distinctive than neutral events. We asked whether organization and distinctiveness can account for emotionally-enhanced memory. To examine organization, we compared memory for arousing, negatively-valenced pictures, and inter-related neutral pictures. To examine distinctiveness, we manipulated list…

In this study, the authors examined the relationship between teacher and student enjoyment. Based on social-cognitive approaches to emotions, they hypothesized (a) that teacher enjoyment and student enjoyment within classrooms are positively linked and (b) that teacher enthusiasm mediates the relationship between teacher and student enjoyment.…

This article reviews the significance of Jacques Ranciere's work for methodological debates in the social sciences, and education specifically. It explores the implications of constructing research as an aesthetic, rather than primarily a methodological, endeavour. What is at stake in this distinction is the means by which research intervenes in…