Describes an investigation of social sensitivity in which 48 female preschoolers viewed eight filmed episodes of interpersonal behavior containing either congruous or incongruous stimulus features. Results are discussed mainly in terms of mental age differences. (SDH)

Described are a child therapist's observations and impressions of compulsive behavior in approximately 15 autistic children treated in the Linwood Children's Center (Maryland) for psychotic children. (MC)

Thirty educable mentally handicapped (EMR) and 30 normally achieving boys, matched on mental age (8-years-old), were administered a measure of locus of control and a series of six block designs. (GW)

The author examines (1) sport as a medium for attitude learning, (2) achievement as an attitude to be modified in girls, and (3) educational sport as a teaching model through which achievement attitudes in elementary school girls can be affected. Sport is seen as an ideal mechanism for attitude change since it has all the characteristics of a…

This paper presents a discussion of three problem areas that were delineated during the course of a field test designed to assess the effects of the "Heartsmart Adventures," an interpersonal skills curriculum developed from the Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation (FIRO) Theory as described by William C. Schutz. Students and…

Implications for affective education are drawn from an empirical study of 60 upper-middle socioeconomic class 6 to 15 year-olds' responses to questions asking how videotaped actors felt. Percentage frequencies of category use in tape-recorded transcripts coded by two judges revealed no differences by child's sex. Marked developmental differences…

This article attempts to apply recent research findings to a possible organizational model of human relations training in a small-college setting. The model is broken down into six training sequences: (1) affective experiences, (2) human relations, (3) practice in application; (4) preservice, and (5) inservice I and inservice II. (Author/BW)

Attempted to determine the differential effects of positive, neutral and negative affect in nonverbal teacher behavior on the cognitive and noncognitive task performance of students stratified by grade (second and sixth), race (black or white) and sex, randomly assigned to the three levels of the experimental factor. (Author/ED)

Data for this study are taken from the author's Ph.D. dissertation "Processes of Seeking Entrance in and Recuitment by Voluntary Social Orgranizations, University of Wisconsin, 1966.

The purpose of a study was to identify factors impacting on supportive behavior exhibited by pre-service home economics education teachers that relate to student-teacher interaction. Four types of positive affective actions were examined: verbal, physical contact, facial, and physical proximity. A pretest/posttest design used videotaped…

This paper presents a coherent account of affect based on the functional properties of the nervous system. The paper begins with a brief discussion of the nature of a structural theory and contrasts it with a functional view. Then the functional view is discussed in more detail. The following two assumptions of the functional view are described:…