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"Why Do I Feel This Way?" Recursive and Reinforcing Antecedents of Emotions in the Classroom

Tue, April 12, 12:25 to 1:55pm, Convention Center, Floor: Level One, Room 150 A

Session Type: Symposium

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The classroom is laden with emotions: students may anxiously take an exam, enthusiastically answer a question, or erupt in anger towards their peers, while the teacher responds to them with sympathy, joy, or frustration. Though these instances are salient, there are underlying recursive and reinforcing processes that play out prior to these moments. Understanding these processes is necessary to fully understand the classroom environment and improve emotional well-being and academic success. This symposium brings together researchers to address three main objectives: 1) Present new empirical evidence for these recursive and reinforcing processes, 2) Identify gaps in current research on how emotions play out in the classroom, 3) Consider the broader implications of understanding emotions in the classroom.

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