Metaphor is an essential process and product of thought. Works of art, being developed products of thought, can be metaphors for felt dimensions of experience in its broadest sense. The metaphoric process can be used to interpret art works and art periods. (RM)

Findings indicated that attachment-related affect may reflect an affect continuum that underlies certain mother- and stranger-directed behaviors in the Strange Situation. However, not all aspects of reunion behavior can be predicted by prior separation reactions. (Author/RH)

Three examples of children (five to nine years old) with acting-out behaviors are cited to illustrate the author's contention that such behavior is indicative of specific developmental levels of social and emotional functioning. The need for intervention appropriate to the developmental level is asserted. (CL)

Large group activities in which affection was discussed, modeled, and practiced were effective in increasing peer interaction of three isolate preschool children, two of whom were developmentally disabled. Activities were designed to lessen aversion to touching and to increase peer social approaches, smiling, and active affectionate physical…

Offers seven lesson plans to help blend the affective and cognitive realms of children's learning, connecting an emotional lexicon with written and spoken dialogs, photographs, arguments, and movements. (DMM)

Explored intimate interaction in a home for the aged. Interviews with residents (N=40) and staff (N=26) revealed that the residents' intimate relationships were primarily with others outside the home. Factors impeding intimate interactions were related to negative stereotype of the aged and staff perceptions of their role. (JAC)

Observed 42 couples during emotional interactions: each spouse discussed an upsetting incident unrelated to the marriage. Results showed the proportion of approval or caring behavior expressed was directly related to marital adjustment. Overall, negative behavior appeared to inhibit the probability of subsequent expressions of complaints by…

Investigated the relationship between patient age and preference for physician communication style in 303 adults. Results showed that, while most patients prefer a high degree of both information and affect, older patients prefer a low-information/high affect strategy. Results may indicate the presence of receiver apprehension in elderly patients.…

Twenty male and twenty female third graders expected boy characters to retaliate more strongly than girl characters when intervening in an attack upon a friend and girl characters to retaliate more strongly than boys when being verbally or physically assaulted. (Author/KH)

Assessed influence of maternal age at first birth on mothers' emotionally affective behaviors to their children using three samples of families (N=33, 38, 36). Two models of age effects were considered: (1) life experiences and (2) stress from early first birth. Age at first birth was positively associated with supportive maternal behaviors and…

Investigates the attitudes of 340 Israeli government employees toward their work and the introduction of the computer. Three behavior modalities--affective, cognitive, and instrumental--of five referent groups are examined both for work and for computer introduction. (Author/IRT)

Health educators should be aware of people as growth aspiring, with a basic nature of goodness, and that individuals need to experience those qualities within themselves which produce health and a zest for living. (JD)

For millennia, emotional states have been viewed as avoidable impediments to rational thinking (Ellis & Newton, 2000). Several reasons have been pointed out. The lack of consensus of the definition on emotion that tend to conflict with each other was suggested as a main reason (Price, 1998). Also the difficulty of research methodology such as…

For over half a century, researchers have attempted to specify the effects of childrearing in socially depriving environments on child development, specifically studying the development of children from institutions found to provide few social and emotional interactions between caregivers and children and comparing findings to those for…

Central to this dissertation is an attempt to investigate whether or not a single-sex environment has a positive impact upon girls' attitudes and beliefs, as they pertain to the learning of mathematics. All learners of mathematics are enveloped by the social practices pertaining to both mathematics and society at large. Underlying these social…