Affect Psychological term often used for observable expression of feelings, but occasionally used for privately experienced emotions. The expressions of emotion or feelings to others include facial expressions, gestures, tone of voice, and other signs...

In Benjamin Bloom’s Taxonomy of Education Objectives (1956) a distinction is made between the cognitive, the psychomotor and the affective domains; the affective being concerned with emotions, feelings and attitudes rather than with cognitive...

The aspect of life that relates to the emotions or affections. Adult educators have concentrated upon this domain more systematically than have those working in initial...

Affect, like the adjective affective, refers to the experience of feeling or emotion.[1] Affect is a key part of the process of an organism’s interaction with stimuli. The word also refers sometimes to affect display, which is "a facial, vocal, or...

Medical books indicate that at least since the time of Hippocrates, around 400 BC, doctors and their patients have believed that arthritis pain is influenced by the weather. So certain has the relationship been that many doctors today encourage severely affected patients to move...

This section of the Journal attempts to keep readers informed of current resources of an integrative nature or those related to the general field of the psychology of religion appearing in other professional journals. A wide range of psychological and theological journals are...

News that Standard & Poor’s, the bond-rating agency, has upgraded New York City’s credit is both astonishing and routine. The astonishing part is for those of us with long memories. Anyone who can recall the bad old days of the 1970’s, when the city...

When asked about Ford Motor Co.'s announcement that it lost a record $12.7 billion last year, the director of Dodge's racing program cringes as if he just swallowed a swig of motor oil.These aren't the best of times for the U.S. auto industry, and the...