Nonretarded trainable retarded and mildly retarded individuals (N=106), matched on MA, attempted to identify emotional states of tape-recorded voices speaking in an unfamiliar language. Although analyses indicated that trainable subjects were less accurate overall than were mildly retarded and nonretarded subjects, all three groups were able to…

A special curriculum for learning disabled students incorporates social and emotional components. Case studies illustrate the effectiveness of giving students opportunities to acknowledge their feelings and release energy constructively. Suggested methods for social and emotional skill development are offered. (CL)

Indicates that highly anxious preschool children reduced anxiety levels through play. Compared with low-anxious subjects, highly anxious children engaged in more dramatic/fantasy play forms. Imaginative qualities which children introduce in their play are more essential to the resolution of the conflict than social forms of play.(Author)

Stories were read to 72 elementary age children who then indicated how they would feel as the story protagonist. Boys attributed anger to themselves more frequently than did girls, who more often attributed sadness and fear to themselves. The intensity of both boys' and girls' emotional attributions decreased with age. (KH)

Administered standard and modified versions of the Defining Issues Test (DIT) to 40 older adults. Contrary to previous studies, the self/other manipulation failed to significantly influence older adults' moral judgments. The role of cognitive/perspective-taking and personal/affective factors in moral reasoning abilities are discussed. (JAC)

Work experience programs for youth can be a means of developing coping, decision-making, and problem solving skills, and other affectively oriented outcomes. The types of personal outcomes of career education and the means of fostering these are reviewed. (Author/JDS)

Every day that passes presents massive change to students and instructors at all levels of education. Nowhere are these changes more evident than in the area of instructional technology, especially at the postsecondary level. This scenario is doubly complex when the participants are from countries other than where they were born and raised.…

The relationship between parental personality traits and how parents socialize their children's emotions is largely unexplored. This study examined the association of personality traits such as Neuroticism and Agreeableness, and emotion traits such as Anxiety and Trait Depression to the strategies parents use to socialize their children's sadness,…

Women's anger expression style has been the focus of several recent studies and has been demonstrated to have deleterious effects on emotional and physical health. The purpose of this study was to review the empirical literature for women's anger expression style and related health and relational consequences. The study reviewed emotion induction,…

Results of this study suggest that some use of the type of the listening used in this study would be appropriate for teaching discriminative listening in the general music curriculum. (Author)

A multidisciplinary approach to history provided by the use of poetry, and specifically epic poetry, portrays the story of man and offers a viable affective learning experience. (Author/KM)

Author states that participation in TV becomes video feedback to teachers and parents. If radical approaches to TV become the norm, video will be the content of a new awareness that is being generated by this new visual culture. (Author)

An investigation into the association between economic understanding, dogmatism, liberalism-conservatism and other affective elements for students of economics revealed that the teacher significantly affects the amount of gain in economic knowlege and change in open- or closed-mindedness and opinionation about economics. (Author)