Language materials of the Language Improvement to Facilitate Education (LIFE) Project are described as carefully sequenced curriculum materials which use visuals to educate deaf children in the affective domain. The affective domain is defined as the area of human experiences related to interest, appreciation, attitudes, adjustments and values;…

This study first investigates the effects of group structure on collective projections in groups, then examines how collective projections feed back and affect group structure. It examines the effects of having a deviant in a group on group projections and responses. (Author)

This study further investigates the validity of the McMillan Affective Relationship Scale (MARS) by (1) examining its relationship to other commonly used scales; (2) determining whether it was sensitive to change over time for encounter group participants; and (3) attempting to determine whether pretesting on MARS was a possible source of…

A cognitive analysis of loneliness is presented. Loneliness is defined as occuring when a person's achieved social relations are less numerous or less satisfying than the person desires. Factors that cause loneliness by altering the person's achieved or desired social relations are discussed. (Author)

In light of the significance of widowhood as a precipitator of loneliness in adult life, research in the areas of family sociology, psychology and social gerontology is surveyed with a view to illuminating the problem of loneliness in widowhood and old age. (Author)

This study evaluated the hypothesis that affective components of creativity (attitudes, values, interest, motivations) may be strengthened in a university creativity course. A two-group, two-test design was used. For each class, the after-training creativity test scores were significantly higher than the before-training scores of the other class.…

In this article, the author distinguishes values from motives, then further separates instrumental values from intrinsic ones. He discusses how both are grounded and suggests how they can be identified by the counselor. (Author)

This study investigated the temporal orientation of delinquents and nondelinquents while controlling institutionalization. Four groups were selected: institutionalized delinquents; institutionalized nondelinquents; noninstitutionalized delinquents; and noninstitutionalized nondelinquents. The affective attitudes of the nondelinquents toward the…

This study examined the role of emotional catharsis in brief emotive psychotherapy and its differential effects within three time frames. The findings are seen as supporting the contention that within a specific time frame emotional catharsis can lead to certain positive outcomes in brief emotive psychotherapy. (Author)

Seventy-six preschool children were given instructions designed to evoke a positive, negative, or neutral mood; they were subsequently given a choice between an immediately available but less perferred reward or a delayed, preferred reward. (BRT)

Students who feel they have some control over what happens to them may make greater gains in reading achievement. Methods to promote this behavior in the reading classroom are described. (MKM)

Tests three previously untested hypotheses central to the theory of Brazelton and colleagues about the sequential structure of mother-infant face-to-face interaction. Results show that with some revision the hypotheses describe the structure of mother-infant face-to-face interaction from three to nine months of age. (Author/RH)

The study attemped to link cognitive and social problems seen in girls with Turner syndrome by assessing the girls' ability to process affective cues. Seventeen 9- to 17-year-old girls diagnosed with Turner syndrome were compared to a matched control group on a task which required interpretation of affective intention from facial expression.…

Thirty-two mentally retarded and 23 nonretarded adults viewed slides of four retarded and four nonretarded preschoolers. They were asked to label facial expressions depicting four emotional states: happiness, anger, sadness, neutrality. Among results were that retarded adults used the label "happy" most often, while nonretarded adults used the…