THIS PAPER DISCUSSES EMPATHY AS THE CONCEPT HAS DEVELOPED PHILOSOPHICALLY, AS IT IS USED IN THE ARTS, AND AS IT DIFFERS FROM SYMPATHY. EMPATHY IS DEFINED AS A TWO-DIRECTIONAL PROCESS INVOLVING THE OBSERVER AND THE OBSERVED. THE ETHICAL CONCEPT IS DEFINED AS AN EMOTIONAL "FEELING INTO," EXTENSION, OR INVESTMENT OF THE SELF ON THE PART OF…

Reports a short-term longitudinal study of children at 13 months and at 18 months which supports the belief that patterns of emotion reflect early, persistent individual differences; they also reflect a developmental trend toward increasing complexity of emotional responses. (Author/NH)

The article reviews characteristics of early, middle, and late adolescence in terms of self-concept, peer relations, and emotional development and notes special problems (such as defense mechanisms, depression, and drug abuse) that professionals face in working with adolescents. (CL)

The paper reviews recent history of study of human emotions in psychology and traces factors that have been responsible for a remarkable increase of interest in emotions, especially as regulators of human behaviors. Research on social referencing is reviewed, showing importance of social referencing with infants as young as 8.5 months. Clinical…

A method of studying the content of young children's stories was devised and validated. Elements of children's stories are categorized and then analyzed. Categories include harm or good to child and a neutral category. Results may be interpreted in terms of a child's psychoanalytic functioning. (ST)

Two of the originators of the DEG Project tell what it is, how it works and how such an approach can help teachers gain confidence in meeting the emotional needs of each child. (Editor)

Describes efforts of OE to help gifted and talented students develop to full capacity. (GB)

The emotional development of the exceptional child is discussed in terms of the child experiencing fun in his individual childhood play and in family activities. (CB)

Worry was found to be more highly negatively related to examination grades than was Emotionality or pulse rate and worry was more highly negatively related to expectancy than was Emotionality. However, pulse rate was no more highly related to Emotionality than to Worry, suggesting that questionnaire and direct measures of autonomic arousal are…

Affect Abilities Training (AAT) illustrates the kinds of concrete methods which can be used to further the affective development of persons with mental retardation. The objective of AAT is to develop those emotional behaviors upon which the individual (and society) place value while decreasing those responses which are counterproductive to…

Discusses out-of-home care for children in India including the social, emotional, and cultural challenges of out-of-home care and the need to develop individuation. (RJC)

Discusses neocortical contributions to emotional processing. Examines parameters critical to neuropsychological study of emotion: interhemispheric and intrahemispheric factors, processing mode, and communication channel. Describes neuropsychological theories of emotion. Reviews studies of right-brain-damaged, left-brain-damaged, and normal adults,…