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Neurodevelopmental Changes in the Circuits Underlying Empathy and Sympathy from Childhood to Adulthood
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Decety, Jean; Michalska, Kalina J. – Developmental Science, 2010
Empathy and sympathy play crucial roles in much of human social interaction and are necessary components for healthy coexistence. Sympathy is thought to be a proxy for motivating prosocial behavior and providing the affective and motivational base for moral development. The purpose of the present study was to use functional MRI to characterize…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Prosocial Behavior, Emotional Response, Interpersonal Relationship
Educational Theories, Cultures and Learning: A Critical Perspective. Critical Perspectives on Education
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Daniels, Harry, Ed.; Lauder, Hugh, Ed.; Porter, Jill, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
"Educational Theories, Cultures and Learning" focuses on how education is understood in different cultures, the theories and related assumptions we make about learners and students and how we think about them, and how we can understand the principle actors in education--learners and teachers. Within this volume, internationally renowned…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Brain, Social Environment, Educational Policy
Children's Conceptions of the Situational Affective Consequences of Sociomoral Events.
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Arsenio, William F. – Child Development, 1988
A two-part study examined children's conceptions of the linkages between sociomoral events and emotional consequences for several event participants. Results of the first study indicated that children's conceptions were highly differentiated. The second study found children able to match affective information to events likely to cause emotional…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Children, Emotional Development, Influences
Children's Moral and Affective Judgments Regarding Provocation and Retaliation.
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Smetana, Judith G.; Campione-Barr, Nicole; Yell, Nicole – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 2003
Children's moral judgments, attributions of emotion, and their associations were examined in hypothetical, prototypical situations and situations of provocation and peer retaliation. Children judged prototypical and provoked moral transgressions (hitting and teasing). Hypothetical moral transgressions were judged to be more serious and deserving…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Childhood Attitudes, Children, Moral Development
Understanding Reasons.
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Wilson, John – Journal of Moral Education, 1980
The rules and concepts of basic moral reasoning can be taught without difficulty to quite young children; but educating them to prefer to use these rules is another matter. Kohlberg's stages are not likely to be stages of cognitive reasoning, but indication of the reasoning encouraged by the child's environment. (Author/SJL)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Children, Concept Formation, Developmental Stages
The Relationship between Emotional Development and Moral Development and the Differential Impact of Three Psychological Interventions on Children.
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LeCapitaine, John E. – Psychology in the Schools, 1987
Third and fourth graders (N=72) participated in psychoeducational interventions focused on feeling and feeling content, moral dilemmas and conflict resolution, or combination of both. Combination condition manifested significantly greater gains in moral development than did other conditions. All conditions as a whole exhibited significant gains in…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Children, Comparative Analysis, Conflict Resolution
"Set a Good Example Contest" Evaluation: Response of Teachers and Students.
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Beckmann, Shelley L. – 1994
The "Set a Good Example Contest" has been in operation for 10 years. The contest is based on the idea that educating youth in common sense values and getting students to set good examples for their peers will solve many of the problems faced in today's society. This paper examines the effects of this program. Both teachers and students…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Behavior Change, Children
Les Interactions des Eleves. La Structure du Developpement: La Sphere Sociale (Students' Interactions--Developmental Framework: The Social Sphere).
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Language Services Branch. – 1991
This report puts forth the position of the Ministry of Education of Alberta, Canada, with respect to education for the social development of the elementary school student. The report provides a brief and selective overview of the literature on normal social development during the first 15 years of life in the domains of affective, interpersonal,…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Children, Developmental Stages, Early Childhood Education