Effective communication is vital in both social and professional contexts, yet the nuanced relationship between nonverbal communication (NVC) and affectivity, particularly in relation to demographic factors, has not been fully understood. The lack of clarity in how these elements interact poses a challenge in developing tailored communication…

This paper investigates affect as part of children's sensemaking in the context of a play-based mixed-reality science learning environment. We build on theories of affect as disciplinary work by investigating the multiple layers of affect that are essential to children's scientific inquiry and to identify pedagogical moves that recognize, value,…

Creative action is idiosyncratic. Not only do "creators" differ in their approaches to creative work, but "creative endeavors" differ in complexity, scale, and level of difficulty, meaning that the self-regulation strategies people use to manage themselves and their ideas from creative ideation to implementation may differ.…

Background: Initiating meaningful moments of interaction with people with profound intellectual disabilities can prove to be difficult for support staff. Exploring the behaviour of support staff that precedes the initiations of behaviour by people with profound intellectual disabilities helps to shed light upon the potential facilitating effects…

The study explored the effectiveness of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) in reducing mathematics anxiety among secondary school students in Nigeria. Sixty Senior Secondary Class One students from schools in Isoko North LGA, Delta State, were randomly assigned to either the REBT intervention group (n = 30; M_age = 15.60 years, SD = 1.04; 14…

While day-to-day negative affect normatively rises across adolescence, emotional experiences also stratify, or diverge, across individuals. Moreover, negative affect is not a unitary construct but comprises distinct feeling states (e.g., sadness, anger, anxiety), each characterized by distinct age-related trends. Yet, most developmental research…

Despite the long-standing debate over the assumed universality of maternal sensitivity predicting attachment security (i.e., sensitivity hypothesis), few long-term longitudinal investigations on attachment have been conducted outside the Western context. We leveraged data from a prospective 9-year longitudinal study of middle-class families (N =…

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the political potential of boredom as an affirmative negation of neoliberalism in higher education. On this account, boredom is re-inscribed as a political affect and emotion that interrupts neoliberalism and capitalism. This discussion troubles the idea of boredom as a psychologised, individualised…

Children raised in chaotic households show affect dysregulation during later childhood. To understand why, we took day-long home recordings using microphones and autonomic monitors from 74 12-month-old infant-caregiver dyads (40% male, 60% white, data collected between 2018 and 2021). Caregivers in low-Confusion Hubbub And Order Scale (chaos)…

This paper builds on discussions about what sort of generosity might be nurtured in pedagogy when perspectives of affectivity, corporeality, and politics are foregrounded. The paper focuses on highlighting a multidimensional understanding of generosity with specific emphasis on the ways in which affective/embodied/corporeal and political…

This article examines the racism and whiteness we felt attending a graduate course in the Fall of 2019. We revisit two moments of the course to highlight how academia is imbued with whiteness at a spatial and affectual level, exemplifying what we call "white affect." The first moment constitutes the official start of the course, the…

Blended learning (BL) is experiencing significant growth due to the practical needs of business administration tertiary education. As a result, a combination of online and offline teaching has become the "new normal" for students participating in higher education. Employing innovative BL learning models could improve student engagement,…

Purpose: We investigate the extent to which automated audiovisual metrics extracted during an affect production task show statistically significant differences between a cohort of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and typically developing controls. Method: Forty children with ASD and 21 neurotypical controls interacted with a…

Objectives: The quality of intimate partner relationships strongly influences men's mental health, yet little research attention has been given to these relationships from a strengths-based critical masculinities perspective. Addressing this knowledge gap, this photovoice study provides insights into young men's experiences of, and perspectives…

Despite the importance of peer relationships in college, limited research has explored factors protecting students from the development of relational aggression and victimization, despite evidence of the manifestation of these phenomena. This study explored associations between negative emotional states, mindfulness and self-compassion, and…