This study investigated the temporal orientation of delinquents and nondelinquents while controlling institutionalization. Four groups were selected: institutionalized delinquents; institutionalized nondelinquents; noninstitutionalized delinquents; and noninstitutionalized nondelinquents. The affective attitudes of the nondelinquents toward the…

Details some problematic features of G. Zivin's framework on the development of expressive behavior. (HOD)

Investigates two possible theoretical accounts for affect-congruency in the verbal content of message output during emotional states. Reveals that neither the number of positive and negative adjectives nor the semantic intensity of adjectives varied with participants' positive states, but that both the number and semantic intensity of negative…

Effective problem solvers have an aptitude complex composed of cognitive, affective, and conative factors. After diagnosing learning readiness, instructions can organize strategies to help students structure knowledge and develop the attitudes, confidence, and skills to think through application-level problems. (SK)

Examines the effects of happy and sad moods on systematic processing among undergraduate students. Discusses how research has indicated that positive mood leads to less systematic processing, and negative mood heightens systematic processing. Indicates that persons in a positive mood do have the cognitive capacity to process systematically, but…

Presents strategies for making instruction more emotionally sound based on the FEASP (fear, envy, anger, sympathy, pleasure) approach. Highlights include the roles of emotions in cognitive instructional design, in motivational design of instruction, in affective education, and in emotional education; and a framework for Emotional Design of…

A study of 24 incarcerated women participating in a learning group indicated that empathic practices used by prisoners were typically limited to cognitive aspects, whereas the learning group developed a repertoire of affective practices. Developing this kind of empathy better prepares incarcerated women for social relations outside the prison.…

Dave Sherratt and Gill Donald teach children with autism at Mowbray School, North Yorkshire. Dave Sherratt also teaches at the University of Birmingham and is honorary research fellow at the University College of York St John. Gill Donald is also a specialist speech and language therapist for Hambleton and Richmondshire Primary Care Trust. In this…

The authors present a neurological theory of how cognitive information and emotional information are integrated in the nucleus accumbens during effective decision making. They describe how the nucleus accumbens acts as a gateway to integrate cognitive information from the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and the hippocampus with emotional…

ICT has a very short history in Slovakia. A majority of Slovak schools accessed computers and internet only after 2000. Different financial support and schools' participation in various projects resulted in non-random distribution of computers across Slovakian elementary schools. We examined whether 1) attitudes toward computers could be affected…

The "Multidimensional Attitudes toward Inclusive Education Scale" (MATIES) was developed to effectively measure affective, cognitive and behavioural aspects of attitudes, within the realm of inclusive education that includes physical, social and curricular inclusion. Models within Item Response Theory and Classical Test Theory were used…

Background: Although the pattern of frontal electroencephalogram (EEG) asymmetry during the processing of emotion has been examined in many studies of healthy adults and typically developing infants and children, no published work has used these theoretical and methodological approaches to study emotion processing in children with Down syndrome.…

Mandler's (1984) model of emotion is summarized in this paper and is operatonalized analytically and statistically using Thom's (1975) catastrophe theory. Data were collected from (n=15) mathematics majors in a pilot study to test Mandler's model and the nonlinear effects of emotions in solving mathematical problems. The data were found to fit…

The relationship between mood and information processing, particularly when reviewing the Elaboration Likelihood Model of persuasion, lacks conclusive evidence. This study was designed to investigate the hypothesis that information processing would be greater for mood-topic congruence than non mood-topic congruence. Undergraduate students (N=216)…

Exploring issues of content and construct validity, this paper reviews how empathy in young children has been defined and measured. Discussion first focuses on empathy viewed as an affective awareness and response to the feelings of another person. The review reports research using the Affective Situation Test, naturalistic studies of affective…