Responds to Heesacker and Prichard's (1992) article on male emotional expressivity. Challenges use of theories of Bly. Questions their assertion that our culture offers men no powerful images of maleness and assumption that modern society centers on women's affective style. Takes issue with their claim that feminist researchers do not view male…

Students' attitudes, interests, and values are enormously important to educators because affective dispositions are powerful predictors of students' subsequent behavior. A remarkably important way to judge schools can be gained by collecting evidence of important affective changes in groups of students over time.

A discussion of creativity focuses on its relationship with other processes within the individual. The social or personal nature of creativity is noted, as are its adaptive, elaborative, or developmental facets. Implications for teaching include the need for understanding the importance or reconciling the emotional forces of creativity with…

Affect Abilities Training (AAT) illustrates the kinds of concrete methods which can be used to further the affective development of persons with mental retardation. The objective of AAT is to develop those emotional behaviors upon which the individual (and society) place value while decreasing those responses which are counterproductive to…

Describes a typical disturbance of affectivity in adolescent schizophrenics in which the patient relates to the people around him or her in a superficial, socially acceptable, receptionist-like manner. (SS)

Contends affect is integral component of Rational Emotive Therapy model. Reviews affective aspect of the model in terms of theoretical constructs and therapeutic techniques. Makes references to author-observed interactions of Albert Ellis and describes his life-style to permit inferences regarding the role of affect. Includes commentary by Ellis…

Asserts that males are somewhat inexpressive with their feelings. Notes that male avenues of expressiveness are different from those employed by females and perhaps different from the expectations of therapists. Contends that therapeutic intervention for males will be enhanced by exploration of counseling paradigms which compliment these different…

Responds to previous article by Waring et al. on controlled trial of cognitive marital therapy in severe marital discord. Focuses on suggestion of possibility that self-disclosure of personal constructs does not enhance marital intimacy. Contends that important reason why cognitive marital therapy did not prove more effective for subjects was lack…

This paper argues that using the notion of ambivalence in understanding ethnic hatred can be helpful to educators who struggle to address the pedagogical implications of students' feelings of hatred. It is suggested that, although hate feelings are difficult to change, unraveling the ambivalence in the affective politics of hatred creates…

This conceptual essay employs psychoanalytic theory in exploring the difficulties the author's son experienced in learning to read. Emphasizing the profoundly affective and subjective dimensions of one child's movement toward and against literacy, the author considers the potential of psychoanalytic perspectives in helping teachers and researchers…

Research both in cognitive psychology and psychobiology suggests that political behavior is often less rational than individuals believe it to be. Information processing, memory, and decision making are interlinked processes. Studies in cognitive psychology reveal that even though decision making requires rationality, individuals often adopt…

The author examines the loneliness of dying for the person facing death and for his or her loved ones. He also discusses the agony of grieving, be it for the death of a loved one, the loss of a marriage, or even the termination of a life-fulfilling position. (Author)

Maintains that grief and other emotional behaviors and feelings associated with the death of a child can be most effectively managed when they are acknowledged and shared. (BB)

Argues that depression may be viewed as one of several normal affective developments of pregnancy rooted in some of the physiological events of gestation and that identification of depression during pregnancy may be difficult (but nonetheless important) because the symptoms of pregnancy and depression are confounded. (Author/ABB)

Indicates that the felt literacy needs of prisoners and affective characteristics should be of primary concern in literacy programs. Contends that qualitative methods such as interviews are more effective means of needs assessment than standardized tests. (SK)