The leader of the Socialists in the Dutch Parliament and his Liberal opponent participated in this realistic experiment. Identical TV interviews with the two politicians were recorded and shown to subjects of both parties. The intensity of delivery was also varied: emotional versus rational. Our findgins indicated that the experimental interveiw changed the attitude of the subjects. In addition...

The purpose of this research was to find the relationship between emotional intelligence and self-efficacy in practical courses among physical education teachers. 124 male and 76 female physical education teachers were randomly selected. Bar-on Emotional and Selfefficacy job Questionnaires were used to evaluate the teachers’ attitudes. Pearson correlation coefficient was used to investigate the...

The study explores adolescents' attitudes toward seeking help for emotional problems. The personal service gap is examined by asking adolescents about their willingness to refer themselves and others to formal (psychologists) and informal (friends) help sources, using a within-subjects design. The study included 662 Israeli adolescents in the 10th and 12th grades. The results indicate that adol...

The purpose of this research was to find the relationship between emotional intelligence and job self-efficacy in research courses among Tehran physical education teachers. 200 physical education teachers (124= M, 76=F) were randomly selected from different Tehran universities. Bar-on Emotional and Selfefficacy job questionnaires were used to evaluate the teachers’ attitudes. Pearson correlatio...

Among different factors contributing to foreign language learning, affective variables such as attitudes, orientations, motivation, and anxiety are of paramount importance. Among these various factors, learners' attitude towards language learning is considered as one of the key factors in motivating the learners to learn that language. This studyexamined a sample of Iranian medical students' at...

BACKGROUND Domestic violence (DV) is a serious problem all over the world which had been extended to boundaries of countries, economical, cultural and racial classes. 10-69 percent of women are exposed to physical, sexual and emotional violence which has numerous physical and emotional consequences. Therefore, males' attitude towards women is one of the strongest predicting factors of violence ...

In this work we present two types of emotional message, negative (sadness) versus mixed (joy and sadness), with the aim of studying their differential effect on attitude change and the probability estimated by participants of repeating the behavior of occasional excessive drinking in the near future. The results show that for the group of participants with moderate experience in this behavior t...

Since Mitchell and Olson (1981) highlighted the major influence of the attitude towards the ad (Aad) for advertising effectiveness, emotional responses in advertising have received increasing attention. Since then, numerous authors have found that ad evaluations were debilitated by negative affect and stimulated by positive affect, and that liking an ad could lead to developing a positive attit...