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...

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...

Carriers will start shutting down the country's oldest cellular network, for analog devices, in February. How to know if you will be affected:_ Cell phones. If your phone is less than five years old, or has features like texting, Internet access or a built-in camera,...

President Bush said Monday that the mass shooting at Virginia Tech, the deadliest campus shooting ever in this country, affects every student across the nation."Schools should be places of safety, sanctuary and learning," Bush said in reaction to the deaths of more than 30 people...