Every day that passes presents massive change to students and instructors at all levels of education. Nowhere are these changes more evident than in the area of instructional technology, especially at the postsecondary level. This scenario is doubly complex when the participants are from countries other than where they were born and raised.…

The relationship between parental personality traits and how parents socialize their children's emotions is largely unexplored. This study examined the association of personality traits such as Neuroticism and Agreeableness, and emotion traits such as Anxiety and Trait Depression to the strategies parents use to socialize their children's sadness,…

Women's anger expression style has been the focus of several recent studies and has been demonstrated to have deleterious effects on emotional and physical health. The purpose of this study was to review the empirical literature for women's anger expression style and related health and relational consequences. The study reviewed emotion induction,…

Results of this study suggest that some use of the type of the listening used in this study would be appropriate for teaching discriminative listening in the general music curriculum. (Author)

A multidisciplinary approach to history provided by the use of poetry, and specifically epic poetry, portrays the story of man and offers a viable affective learning experience. (Author/KM)

Author states that participation in TV becomes video feedback to teachers and parents. If radical approaches to TV become the norm, video will be the content of a new awareness that is being generated by this new visual culture. (Author)

An investigation into the association between economic understanding, dogmatism, liberalism-conservatism and other affective elements for students of economics revealed that the teacher significantly affects the amount of gain in economic knowlege and change in open- or closed-mindedness and opinionation about economics. (Author)

Tested the hypothesis that answering questions inserted in instructional materials will effect short and long term recall. (RB)

This article explains an experimental project which integrated selected dimensions of the teacher and counselor education programs. The affective components of education and interpersonal functioning were the focus with the structure designed to emphasize experience more than explanation. The process was the lesson. (Author)

The character Education Project of San Antonio, Texas is producing a curriculum for character development beginning at age three and extending into adulthood. The materials, seen as closely related to the counseling program, are being given extensive field testing in several areas of the country. (Author)

Author considers two recent trends in education, the first is that education must become more broadly humanizing and values must be taught in the schools, the second is that our instructional procedures must become far more objective in order to be effective. (Author/RK)

Both academic and disruptive behavior in a classroom for children with behavioral problems were monitored under two different procedures for administering token reinforcement. Control may be more efficiently achieved by reinforcing academic behaviors incompatible with disruptive behaviors. (Author/JB)

Summarized are discussions of a symposium which related the affective domain to the education of hearing impaired children and emphasized media techniques (especially educational television), teacher role, learner individuality, and aesthetic sensitivity. (GW)