Focuses on the relationship between conceptual tempo and control of humorous affect in young children. Records the responses of reflective, fast-accurate, impulsive, and slow-accurate fourth-grade children to a videotape of an adult telling a series of jokes, half of which are followed by audience laughter. (CM)

Observes that the norm for the onset of embarrassment and blushing is five years, although some children may show these signs of a social self one or two years earlier. (RL)

Examines ways in which learning activities can be designed around trigger films--short, high impact vignettes designed to stimulate learning--to enhance their use in situations dealing with affective learning. Illustrates the use of these films in an undergraduate course, and discusses difficulties tutors experience and guidelines for their…

Eighty first and third graders were presented one of two brief videotaped social interactional episodes. Half viewed an unambiguous tape in which affective response was congruent with situational context; the other half viewed an ambiguous tape in which nonverbal affective response was incongruent with situational context. (MS)

This investigation assessed the psychological effects of an experimentally conducted day care program on Chinese and Caucasian children from 3.5 to 29 months. Data from the last two assessments, at 20 and 29 months, revealed little difference between the day care and home control children in cognitive functioning, language, attachment, separation…

Awareness of how their students perceive them and react to them can help teachers to be more effective and to achieve a good working relationship in the classroom. (JD)

Notes on dealing with hostility, withdrawal, anxiety, and rebellion in the classroom along with discussion of emotions that enhance learning and on developing sensitivity to emotions. (TA)

This article presents a description of a course on sex-roles given jointly by the Counseling Center and the Psychology Department at Southern Illinois University. The primary objective is to provide an atmosphere in which each student can examine his/her current conceptions of male and female. (Author)

Describes two experiments with science method students that showed that writing an essay favorable to a particular topic resulted in an attitude change toward that topic. (MLH)

Examined the development of toddler affectionate behavior toward new teachers. Observed 10 toddlers during free play on the first 40 days of day care attendance, recording children's responses to their teacher's smiling, affectionate words, and affectionate contact. Found that smiling received affectionate child responses earlier than other…

This paper examines the role of internal working models in the development of parent-child relationships. Mental representations of child attachment, adult attachment, and parental caregiving are reviewed in light of adaptational deficits often associated with attachment insecurity. A reconceptualization of the link between insecurity and child…

Examines the influence of socialization figures (parents, friends), emotion type (anger, sadness, physical pain), age, and gender on 66 second-grade and 71 fifth-grade children's reasons for and methods of affect expression. Found that girls reported using verbal means to communicate emotion, whereas boys cited mildly aggressive methods. (MDM)

Investigated effects of depressed mothers' touching on their infants' behavior during still-face situation. Subjects were 48 mothers and their 3-month-old infants. Findings suggested that by providing touch stimulation for their infants, depressed mothers can increase infants' positive affect and compensate for negative effects often resulting…

Explored whether the resonance of certain orientations and dimensions purportedly distinctive of black culture (affect, communalism, and spirituality) and mainstream American culture (competition, effort optimism, and individualism) related to African American youths' strategies for coping with perceived discrimination. Surveys of Ohio and Alabama…

This study examined relations of reactive versus proactive aggression to second-graders' anger after losing in a board game to a cheating confederate. Found that reactive aggression, but not proactive aggression, was positively related to skin conductance reactivity and observed angry nonverbal behaviors, both at an aggregated level and in terms…