The study examined the spontaneous expressions of affect displayed by 18 autistic and 18 mentally retarded children matched for chronological age and mental age, as well as a group of 18 normal children matched for mental age only. Affect expressions were coded from videotapes of a standard child-experimenter interaction designed to assess…

This monograph examines the emotions of love and fear and proposes that an individual's understanding of his loving and fearful responses is fundamental to his interactions with himself and with others. This guide is designed to facilitate such understanding. A definition of love is provided in chapter I and fear is explored in chapter II. Chapter…

Teachers need to do more to help students in the process of value development. (MW)

An instructional technique is suggested which can be used in both pre-service and in-service training programs to enhance teachers' understanding of the need to help inner-city children develop positive self-concepts. (CS)

The author discusses the importance of affective objectives in the educational process, and the difficulties in formulating, providing activities in, and evaluating the attainment of these objectives. A distinction is drawn between explicit objectives (those that should be revealed to the student) and implicit objectives (those that are…

Questionnaires were completed by 131 married couples to determine the role of dispositional jealousy on marital success. The total jealousy in the marriage was found to be negatively related to several indices of marital success. Further analyses indicated that marital outcomes were negatively associated with the husband's perception of the wife's…

A preliminary survey was made of the physical and mental reactions during and after horseback riding of 102 physically handicapped children (75 percent were 5-to 15-years-old) from centers in England, Ireland, Wales, Canada and the United States. (LH)

An innovative science program recently developed for use with educable mentally handicapped students was tested on six low-verbal, hearing-impaired secondary students of normal intelligence. (Author)

Students in grades 6 to 8 are shown to display considerable variation in test anxiety, and results for this age group are comparable to previous studies with adult populations. Three factors rotated to an oblique solution accounted for 50 percent of the common score variance when a new 31-item version of the Mandler-Sarason Test Anxiety Scale was…

Research has shown that older persons who have become widowed after many years of marriage maintain deep attachments to their deceased spouses. Case histories, observations and interviews were used to explore some aspects of the persistence of the marital tie after the first few years of mourning had passed. The major element in this tie was…

Research has suggested that self-involving responses, i.e., direct present expressions of a counselor's feelings about client statements, are highly effective counselor behaviors, while self-disclosure responses, i.e., references to personal experiences of the counselor, are moderately effective in eliciting positive client perceptions of and…