Showing papers on "Happiness published in 1971"

Race and sex differences in the child's perception of emotion.

Abstract: GITTER, A. GEORGE; MOSTOFSKY, DAVID I.; and QUINCY, ARTHUR J., JR. Race and Sex Differences in the Child's Perception of Emotion. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1971, 42, 2071-2075. The efects of race and sex on children's perception of anger, happiness, surprise, and pain were analyzed in terms of overall accuracy scores, correct perception of individual emotions scores, and erroneous perception of individual emotions scores. Results indicated insignificant main and interaction effects. Theoretical implications of the impact of cultural forces on perception of emotion were discussed.

On the good life

Abstract: For the great Roman orator and statesman Cicero, the good life' was at once a life of contentment and one of moral virtue and the two were inescapably intertwined. This volume brings together a wide range of his reflections upon the importance of moral integrity in the search for happiness. In essays that are articulate, meditative and inspirational, Cicero presents his views upon the significance of friendship and duty to state and family, and outlines a clear system of practical ethics that is at once simple and universal. These works offer a timeless reflection upon the human condition, and a fascinating insight into the mind of one of the greatest thinkers of Ancient Rome.

Self-Esteem and College Dating Experience as Factors in Mate Selection and Marital Happiness: A Longitudinal Study

Abstract: Self-esteem test scores and reports of dating experience, collected from college women in 1956, are compared with the same women's 1968 reports of the timing and success of their marriages From the original 1956 data, it was found that high self-esteem young women did significantly more dating and tended to go steady less often while in college From the 1968 data and the present comparisons, it is now found that the young women who had dated more often tended to be married earlier, that there was a tendency for both the very high and the very low self-esteems to be inversely related to marital happiness The results suggest self-esteem and early dating experience may deserve more attention in mate selection theory

Maurice: A Novel

Abstract: A new edition of this novel, which although written in 1914, was not published until after the author's death in 1970 because of its homosexual content. It tells the story of a young man at Cambridge, who falls in love with another man who betrays him by turning to women. But then he meets someone else and finds happiness with him.

Calories, growth and the quality of life.

Abstract: There are no more fundamental attributes of childhood than growth and happiness. A major sector of our food industry specializes in products for the young designed to promote their physical growth;...

The Essence of Christianity

Abstract: The phrase ‘essence of Christianity’ is ambiguous. The basic reason for this is that the word ‘essence’ has a more natural, though by no means uncomplicated, reference to substances, whether in philosophical or pharmacological discussion. Outside such contexts the use of phrases like ‘the heart of the matter’, or ‘the essence of happiness’ sound like earnest, but rhetorical devices to commend the depth or fundamental character of a specific investigation.

Petition Adopted at the Crown and Anchor Meeting

Abstract: To the Honourable the Commons of Great Britian and Ireland. The Petition of the undersigned Members of the Working Men’s Association and others sheweth — That the only rational use of the institutions and laws of society is justly to protect, encourage, and support all that can be made to contribute to the happiness of all the people.

The Objectivity of Value-Judgements

Abstract: In the first chapter, I set out an assumption, that what is good in human action and disposition has a great deal to do with what contributes to human happiness and fulfilment, and tends to minimise human misery and frustration.1 The arguments of the intervening chapters have largely depended on this assumption, which will now be justified in the face of some sophisticated philosophical objections which have been raised against it. The principal objection may be summarised as follows. To say that an action or disposition tends to promote happiness or to minimise misery is to make a judgement of fact about it; to say that it is good or bad is to make a value-judgement. But there is no valid inference from any set of merely factual judgements to any judgement of value.

The Three C's and Discipline for Freedom

Abstract: While the majority of Americans consider schooling the main route to success and happiness, an increasing number of students and radical teachers are questioning its relevance to life and work. Such critics of schools as Ivan Illich, Paul Goodman, Marcus Raskin, John Holt, and Jonathan Kozol say schools are factories for socializing children to fit into bureaucracies at the cost of independence and joy of life. What is surprising is that these sentiments are also expressed by a few of the more imaginative industrial managers who aver that schools stifle creative potential in order to train young people for jobs that may no longer exist in the future. We appear to be at a point in history where the whole concept of schooling and its relevance to both the individual and society are open for reexamination; the question to be asked is what type of education would, in fact, be most conducive to the optimal intellectual and emotional development of the student. In our society, and in others, schooling has been justified essentially by its ability to help people make a living and to fit into the sociopolitical system. Different societies develop the kinds of formal and informal schooling that adapts people to dominant modes of work and to institutional roles.