Changes in the student subculture are seen as changes from affective predominance to cognitive predominance. The article examines the implications these changes have for counseling and counseling techniques, i.e., that the counselor is a translator of one cultural style to the other, and his tools are different in an affectively based culture from…

Assessed situational variables affecting emotional expressiveness in 331 students. Results indicated that females were more expressive than males and that persons were more expressive of positive emotions than negative, in the initiator role than in the respondent role, and to opposite-sex rather than same-sex best friends. (WAS)

Materials to promote social/emotional learning skills were tested with 80 hearing impaired elementary children. Assessment of others' emotions, perceptions of others' general character and personality traits, and of one's own affective reactions to various types of portrayed behavior helped students and teachers explore their affective reactions.…

Regardless of birthweight, ventilated infants received the lowest ratings for overall performance on the Infant Behavior Record. Ventilated newborns of very low birthweight were more likely to receive ratings characterizing an overly active infant with a short attention span, and never-ventilated infants of very low birthweight were most likely to…

A study found sex differences in: (1) frequency and intensity of crying, (2) likelihood of crying independent of the presence of others, (3) likelihood of crying independent of the level of intimacy of observers or type of crying stimulus, and (4) in postcrying affect. (CMG)

Observation and analysis of questionnaires completed by mothers of 82 handicapped children (three months to three years old) revealed that infants differed in temperament profile as a function of their dysfunction. (CL)

Twenty-four mothers were trained to record emotional incidents involving their toddlers. Reports of disciplinary encounters were analyzed in terms of (1) the types of discipline used and children's responses to that discipline and (2) the relationship between compliance/noncompliance and type of misdeed. Love withdrawal was shown to be a highly…

Examines recent empirical evidence to test theories postulated in separate works by G. Stanley Hall and Anna Freud that adolescents must experience psychological turbulence in the transition to adulthood. Concludes that turmoil is no longer a necessary condition of adolescence and that those who do experience it need psychiatric attention.…

Based upon responses to questionnaires by 162 university married-housing couples, equity theory was used to explain the relations between affective self-disclosure and marital adjustment. Found that the greater discrepancy in partners' affective self-disclosure, the less was an individual's marital adjustment. (Author/RC)

Teaching with imagery can help students focus on lessons, retain information, improve psychomotor skills, and accept themselves and others. (Author)

Discusses a study conducted to determine whether college students in an environmental earth science course changed their commitment to environmental issues. The development of the environmental commitment scale used is also described. (WB)

Hearing impaired children (eight to nine years old) and their teachers used a "feeling wheel" to discuss their feelings, help resolve arguments, and understand others' emotions. The wheel, divided into 16 segments labeled with feelings, helped students discuss how and why they felt a particular way. (CL)

Fourteen nonretarded second-grade children, 14 educable mentally retarded elementary-aged children, and 14 trainable mentally retarded adolescents, all of preoperational cognitive level on Piagetian tasks, were compared on measures of perceptual perspective-taking, empathy, and helping. In their performance on a simple task, Ss did not vary on any…

Female subjects acted out neutral messages to obtain gaze baseline, then positive or negative message to camera. Half used strong emotion; other half used weak emotion. Found more direct gaze was maintained when expressing strong emotion. Positivity-negativity of message did not affect gaze direction. (Author)

Examined effect of counselor verbal responses on clients' verbal behavior and on their perceptions of counselors. Affect responses were most desirable from both the counselors' and clients' perspectives. Closed questions were least desirable. Content responses and open questions were also highly effective in eliciting desirable client behavior.…