Presented children (N=96) aged 8-11 with verbal pain or nonpain stimuli contingent or noncontingent on a target response. Delivered stimuli within an aggressive or nonaggressive setting and with or without affect. Type of setting did not influence the behavior, but stimuli delivered in an affective manner did facilitate responding. (Author/RC)

College students learning they had done well or poorly on an examination were asked to evaluate the cause of the outcome, describe affective reactions, and estimate expectations about future test performances. Results support the contention that academic failure needn't lead to losses in achievement motivation, depression, or frustration.…

Effects of systematic desensitization and anxiety management training in reducing test anxiety and generalizing to other anxieties were compared. Both desensitization and anxiety management training produced significant reduction of text anxiety, but by follow-up, anxiety management training produced significantly more test-anxiety reduction on…

Anxious students were randomly assigned to a wait-list control group; to three groups aided by experienced behavior therapists; or to three groups led by paraprofessionals. Results show paraprofessionals can achieve outcome and maintenance effects equivalent to more rigorously trained professionals. Paraprofessionals can conduct desensitization in…

Compared primary induction methods that have cognitive bases by assessing their effectiveness in inducing depression and elation moods, respectively. Results generally confirmed hypotheses that autobiographical recollections was the superior method for inducing and altering depression and anxiety in a population that included both sexes. (Author)

A survey showed that employers of industrial and technical program graduates expect a significantly higher degree of affective work competency than students expect to display when they are employed. Students expect to display more independence and initiative than employers expect of beginning workers. (SK)

Measures of limit setting and control in a toy cleanup situation were developed as part of a longitudinal study of lower-SES mothers and children through the first five years of life. Several findings suggest a distinction between mothers' seductive behavior and warmth or affection. Developmental implications are discussed. (Author/RH)

Presents two studies which investigated the variety and level of participation in pre-environment activities. Responses from two groups are discussed: (1) a random sample of Madison, Wisconsin residents; and (2) a stratified random statewide sample of Wisconsin residents. (WB)

The model of phenomenological balance attempts to explain the aesthetic response by accepting all the major philosophical interpretations of the aesthetic experience as legitimate articulations of essential components one encounters when confronting a work of art. It is intended to aid teachers in planning aesthetic experiences. (Author/SJL)

Choice Awareness is a cognitive-affective-behavioral system designed to help young people and adults understand the continuous nature of their choices and to take more effective control in their own lives. (Author)

Smokers and nonsmokers were exposed to anti-smoking communications to compare the relationship of emotional arousal, attitudes, and subjective normative beliefs. Findings revealed that smoking-related intentions were more strongly associated with attitudes toward smoking than with subjective normative beliefs or emotional arousal. (RC)

Videotapes of spontaneous facial and gestural reactions to affective slides were segmented by male and female college students using a group adaptation of Newtson's unitization technique. (Author/SS)

Investigated two dimensions of the verbal exchange, "here-and-now" v "there-and-then" verbal content and positive v negative affective tone, through use of a feedback device developed by the second author. Feedback enhanced use of affective verbalizations. The positive here-and-now condition enhanced group cohesiveness most. (Author)

Investigated the autonomic reactions (heart rate and skin conductance) of 17 mothers of five-month-old infants to two landscape scenes and four types of videotaped segments depicting their own baby and an unfamiliar baby smiling or crying. (JMB)

Measured psychological sequelae to induced abortion among women pregnant out of wedlock, using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and questions specific to willingness to repeat abortion under similar circumstances. Analyses indicated no relation between objective and subjective indicators. Affectivity after induced abortion had…