This project explores the use of narrative to mediate the delivery of information on the effects of harmful discrimination in a simulated environment that is intended to arouse empathy and inspire reflection. It focuses on the potential of instructional narrative simulation to change biased beliefs about homosexuality. "This just is!"…

Counselors, psychotherapists, and counselor educators completed a modified repertory test. Contrary to previous findings, presumed positive and negative affect role constructs of significant others did not produce significant differences. The role constructs--boss and person you'd like to help--previously presumed to be negative affect role…

A practical explication of learning packets, this article gives a useful example of format and a guide for evaluation. (Editor)

Affective education is more than isolated techniques, these authors say. They analyze one experiment in affective education and attempt to point out what went wrong. (Editor)

Describes the purpose of confluent education to increase not only the students' ability to take responsibility for their own learning but also for teachers to become aware of change. (MM)

The procedure presented here is designed to help children recognize that feelings and attitudes affect what a person sees; what one person sees is not necessarily the same as what another will see; what a person sees often determines how he behaves in a situation; and the way a person behaves influences the way others respond to him. (Author)

Personalizing and humanizing the educational process is a goal that is shared by teachers and counselors. Two procedures which improve human relations between teachers and students, and thereby facilitate the learning process, are discussed in this article. These two procedures are the C'' group and the DUSO program. (Author)

School systems in several European countries plan specifically for the moral education of students within the public school setting. (JB)

This study dealt with the question of white versus black superiority in learning, viewing such differences in sociocultural terms. (Author)

Do prior hedonic and excitational variations have influence on the appreciation of subsequently presented music? Implications for the manipulation of response to music and to other affect-producing communications through variations in prior stimulation are discussed. (Author/KM)

The third paper of a series on intellective factors in learning mathematics, critical reviews of research concerned with variables that influence mathematical ability are presented here. (Author/KM)

A series of three studies is presented, each building on the other to validate the utility of reinforcement value, an affective dimension of meaningfulness based on ratings of likability. (Authors)

Children who were forbidden use of an attractive toy were later tempted with attractive prizes to falsify scores. Subjects who complied with the initial severe threat showed less resistence to temptation than control subjects. (JB)

Color data from the Osgood et al. 23-culture semantic differential study of affective meanings reveal cross-cultural similarities in feelings about colors. The concept RED is affectively quite salient; BLACK and GREY are bad, and WHITE, BLUE, and GREEN are good; YELLOW, WHITE, and GREY are weak; RED and BLACK are strong. (RJ)