C ognitive, individual differences, and intergroup contact factors were examined in the formation of attitudes about human rights and ethnic bias in two studies conducted in Spain. A 7-item scale measuring knowledge about human rights laws in Spain and the European Union was used in both studies. Participants were university students enrolled at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. In study one,...

This correlational study investigated students’ evaluation of their biology teachers’ classroom interaction and their feelings towards biology lessons. Three research questions guided the study. Copies of a questionnaire containing 48 items were distributed to 1,216 senior secondary two students from nine randomly selected schools in Onitsha education zone of Anambra state. Data analysed using ...

OBJECTIVE: To describe perceptions, feelings, and attitudes towards death for Intensive Care Units (ICU) professionals, as well to analyze demographic sociocultural factors associated with these outcomes.

We present new measures of well-being to assess the following concepts: 1. Psychological Well-Being (PWB); 2. Positive Feelings, Negative Feelings, and the balance between the two (SPANE-P, N, B); and 3. Positive Thinking. The PWB scale is a short 8-item summary survey of the person’s self-perceived functioning in important areas such as relationships, self-esteem, purpose and meaning, and opti...

This study was conducted in the spring of 2002 at Arlington High School in a Probability and Statistics course for junior and senior level students. Two sections of the class were compared with respect to the use/non-use of EXCEL in the course. The experimental group (the one using EXCEL) outperformed the control group on five of the six teacher-created unit tests and on both of the criterion r...

Sentiment analysis over social streams offers governments and organisations a fast and effective way to monitor the publics’ feelings towards policies, brands, business, etc. In this paper we present SentiCircles, a platform that captures feedback from social media conversations and applies contextual and conceptual sentiment analysis models to extract and summarise sentiment from these convers...

Sentiment Analysis is a natural language processing task that extracts sentiment from various text forms and classifies them according to positive, negative or neutral polarity. It analyzes emotions, feelings, and the attitude of a speaker or a writer towards a context. This paper gives comparative study of various sentiment classification techniques and also discusses in detail two main catego...