Examined the development of the ability of 5-, 9-, and 13-year-old children to produce elemental and complex facial movements intentionally. (Author/DB)

Results indicated that depressed persons received less positive social feedback than did nondepressed persons displaying the same behaviors, and that females were significantly more willing to provide both positive and negative reactions than were males. (Author)

Documents characteristics of emotions in relation to action and self-perception. Argues that taking affect into account yields a different interpretation of successful achievement-change programs. Also clarifies the differences between ability and effort as perceived causes of success and failure. (Author/GC)

Provides a theoretical and philosophical model for values education based on the work of Martin Buber. Reviews six steps that intercede between the initial meeting of teacher and student and the latter's formation of his/her values construction. (LRA)

Two views of emotion in the writings of Paulo Freire are discussed. Freire views emotions as critical forces to be curbed if not eliminated. Emotions are also seen as a necessary part of that essential element of education for critical consciousness--dialog. (JN)

Examined how children come to understand that internally experienced affect need not be behaviorally expressed and that the emotion that is expressed is not necessarily what is being felt internally. Sixty elementary school students were interviewed about four interpersonal conflict situations presented in comic strip style but using photographs…

To assess the premise that picture books are important transmitters of sex-role information, picture books for children were analyzed. Analyses indicated that children are presented with sex-types book models: females, underrepresented in titles, central roles, and illustrations; males, overrepresented in instrumental pursuits and underrepresented…

This study explored the effect of grade level and sex on affective ratings of color and black-and-white pictures by having 148 students from grades 4, 7, and 12 rate color and black-and-white slides on nine semantic differential scales. (JEG)

Employing the same strategy that served to encompass the cognitive domain within two dimensions, this paper presents a synoptic structure for the affective domain in relation to science education. Student affective behaviors and the phenomena that constitute the focus of these affective behaviors in science education are detailed. (BT)

Accountability, behavioral objectives, and measurement in the affective domain, rather than the cognitive domain, are discussed. (TA)

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…

Examined the relations of mothers' and fathers' reported emotion-related practices to parents' and teachers' reports of third- to sixth-grade children's social skills, popularity, and coping. Found that mothers' problem-focused reactions were positively associated with children's social functioning and coping, whereas maternal minimizing reactions…

Examined fetal heart rate and movement in 31 healthy fetuses from 20 weeks through birth and at age 6 months. Found that more active fetuses were more difficult, unpredictable, unadaptable, and active as infants that were less active fetuses, and that higher fetal heart rate was associated with lower emotional tone, activity level, and…

Presents a functionalist perspective on emotion communication and its role in the development of shame and guilt. Emotion communication influences relationship-building between parent and child; gives significance to standards, rules, and achievement; and serves as a channel of communication between parent and child regarding standards, rules, and…

Investigated infants' reactions to the face-to-face/still-face paradigm. Infants reacted to the still-face with negative affect, a drop in vagal tone, and an increase in heart rate. By contrast, they reacted to the reunion episode with a mixed pattern of positive and negative affect. (HTH)