The purpose of this study was to examine children's cognitive-attributional and affective response patterns within competitive and individualistic goal structures. Findings showed that effort attributions covaried with outcome in the individualistic structure, whereas luck and outcome covaried in the competitive structure. (Author/GK)

College students were divided into four groups and administered the standard version of the Defining Issues Test (DIT) and/or a self-orientation version of the same instrument. Subjects displayed greater amounts of principled moral reasoning when responding to the standard (other-orientation) version. (Author/GK)

Explores how conscious effort often precipitates grace, insight and peak experiences which encourage growth and development. Suggests counselors encourage the expression of attitudes and feelings but refrain from making judgements too quickly and imposing their own moral system on the client. (JAC)

Literature is cited on such classroom management techniques as environmental manipulations, curriculum modifications, behavior modification, and dealing with affective attitude. Also considered are home management techniques and self-control programs including biofeedback and relaxation training. (SB)

Four papers on values education with gifted students are presented. (CL)

Institutions need coordinated events programs that support institutional goals and are closely related to them, whether the objective is fund raising, student recruitment, or improvement of the college image. Carefully selected and planned events create news, affect perceptions, influence attitudes, spark emotions, and affect people's decisions…

The author argues that the arts are important to education because they develop the senses, the emotions, and the capacity for appreciation, which receive little attention in our cognitively-oriented schools. (SJL)

Discusses research which focuses on the types of experience that foster the internalization of moral norms in an individual's development. Considers the roles of parents, peers, and the mass media, as well as cognitive development and arousal of affects such as empathy and guilt. (Author/GC)

The career maturity of a private school group of adolescents with learning disabilities was assessed. Significant differences emerged in the affective dimensions but not in the cognitive variables. (Author)

The validity of the Controlled Repression-Sensitization scale as an index of intellectualizing and repressive defenses was examined by a measure of affect cognition, which assesses the level of conceptualization and articulation of feelings in Ss' TAT stories. (Author/RK)

This article states that affective learning is important to prevent boredom and stimulate language use. Use of affective learning activities in the language classroom is outlined and a teaching technique, the open-ended sentence is described as a method that elicits responses charged with personal opinions, feelings and humor. (CHK)

States that schools are backing away from the teaching of primary socialization and argues a case for ritual within the school. Available from: Australian College of Education, 916 Swanston Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia, $2.50 single copy. (Author/MLF)

Examined the relationship between 41 preschool children's peer competency and the exchange of reciprocal negative affect displays during physical play with parents. Found that fathers who typically responded to their children's negative affect displays with negative affect of their own had children who shared less, were more aggressive, and…

Discusses ways the Head Start community can create a safe environment to meet the needs of grieving children. Describes the normal grieving process for children and children's views of death. Provides a list of "Do's and Don'ts" for adults responding to grieving children, suggesting grief activities for young children and describing…

Describes a study that investigated the affective responses of 83 subjects at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to 2 versions of a hypertext-based bibliographic retrieval system. The utility of using factor analysis to explore subjects' search experiences is explained, and the effects of different types of linkages are compared. (Author/LRW)