Promoting Preschoolers’ Emotional Competence Through Prosocial TV and Mobile App Use

This study explored the relationship between preschoolers’ exposure to Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood television programming and its accompanying mobile app and preschoolers’ emotion knowledge and use of emotion regulation strategies. An experiment involving 121 parent-child dyads from 3 US metro areas found that children who played with the Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood app, and those who both played with the app and watched episodes of the program, employed the emotion regulation strategies taught by Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood media more frequently 1 month later than children in a control condition. Preschoolers (3- and 4-year-olds) also exhibited higher levels of emotion knowledge 1 month after playing with the app. In addition, watching Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood TV episodes in the home led to increases in parents’ provision of active mediation. Implications for families, educators, and producers of educational media content are discussed.     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: The Naked Ape. By Desmond Morris . Life or Death, Ethics and Options. By Daniel Larby     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: On Being the Church: Essays on the Christian Community, eds Colin E. Gunton and Daniel W. Hardy. Congregation: Stories and Structures, ed. James F. Hopewell. Long Night's Journey Into Day: Revised Retrospective on the Holocaust, eds Alice L. Eckardt and A. Roy Eckardt. Inter-religious Dialogue in the Catholic Church since Vatican II: an Historical and Theological Study, ed. Robert B. Sheard. Religious Education Encounters Liberation Theology, by Daniel S. Schipani. Theological Roots of Pentecostalism, ed. Donald W. Dayton. Roman Catholic/Pentecostal Dialogue (1977–1982): a Study on Developing Ecumenism, ed. Jerry L. Sandidge.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Daniel Patte, The Ethics of Biblical Interpretation: A Reevaluation, Louisville D. William Faupel, The Everlasting Gospel: The Significance of Eschatology in the Development of Pentecostal Thought, Shefffield     

Out of the picture

Photographing Medicine: Images and Power in Britain and America since 1840, by Daniel M. Fox and Christopher Lawrence (New York; Greenwood, 1988), 357 pages, hb £45/$55     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Daniel R. Ilgen and Elaine D. Pulakos (eds) The Changing Nature of Performance: Implications for Staffing, Motivation, and Development D. Doverspike and R. Yuel The Difficult Hire: Seven Recruitment and Selection Principles for Hard to Fill Positions. Impact Publications Fritz Drasgow and Julie B. Olson‐Buchanan Innovations in Computerized Assessment     

Self-Coherence and Mutuality in the Analytic Dyad: Commentary on Michael Shoshani (Rosenbaum's) Dare to be Human

Michael Shoshani (Rosenbaum's) book Dare to be Human lays bare Michael's emotional relationship with his patient Daniel. Initially, Michael's early childhood relational behavioral patterns are evoked by Daniel's extreme emotional detachment and rejection of Michael as a person. Both analytic partners experienced extreme boundary violations as children in the form of violent beatings, Michael by his father and Daniel by his mother. Michael's mother was overbearing like Daniel's. Both, highly sensitized to intrusions and perceived slights by the other, remain locked in a doer/done to dynamic until Michael successfully breaks through the enactment by learning to stay with Daniel's distress, contain and regulate his own hurt feelings, and provide more space in the relationship by shifting to four times a week and moving Daniel to the couch. Through this process both analytic partners feel safer with each other, deepen their understanding of their own internal object world, and feel intimately engaged with each other. Daniel's life outside the analysis parallels his success in the analytic relationship.     

A Review of “Catch Them Before They Fall: The Psychoanalysis of Breakdown”

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THE SUPERVISORY ENCOUNTER. Jacobs, Daniel, Paul David, and Donald Jay Meyer, New Haven, CT: Yale University, 1995, 285 pages, $l32.50. Reviewed by Constance C. Hendrickson.

THE LANGUAGE OF PERVERSION AND THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE. Bach, Sheldon. Northvale, NJ/London: Jason Aronson, 1994, 202pages, $40.00. Reviewed by Ezra Teitelbaum.     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Social Behavior from Fish to Man. By William Etkin. With a chapter by Daniel G. Freedman. Evolution and the Christian Doctrine of Creation: A Whiteheadian Interpretation. By RICHARD H. OVERMAN. The Cosmos of Arthur Holly Compton. Edited by Marjorie Johnston . My Life and My Views. By Max Born. Teilhard and the Creation of the Soul. By Joseph North God Is Not Dead. By Austin Farrer .     

DENNETT ON FREEDOM

Abstract: In his Freedom Evolves (2003) Daniel Dennett criticizes a view I defend in Autonomous Agents (1995) about the importance of agents' histories for autonomy, freedom, and moral responsibility and defends a competing view. Our disagreement on this issue is the major focus of this article. Additional topics are manipulation, avoidance, and avoidability.     

Reviews: Books

ZEN MASTERS: A MAVERICK, A MASTER OF MASTERS, AND A WANDERING POET. By John Stevens, 161 pp. Kodansha International: Tokyo/NY/London, 1999. $13.00. THE DEVELOPING MIND: TOWARD A NEUROBIOLOGY OF INTERPERSONAL EXPERIENCE. By Daniel J. Siegel. 394 pp. New York: The Guilford Press, 1999. $37.95. JESUS: A PSYCHOLOGICAL BIOGRAPHY. By Donald Capps. 288 pp. St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2000. $29.99.     

THE MANY LIVES OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY PHILOSOPHY

Studies in Greek Philosophy. Gregory Vlastos. Edited by Daniel W. Graham. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1995. Volume I The Presocratics pp. xxxiv + 389; Volume II Socrates, Plato, and Their Tradition pp. xxiv + 349. £40 per volume (hb.), ISBN 0–691–03310–2, 0–691–03311–0; £14.50 per volume (pb.), ISBN 0–691–01937–1, 0–691–01938‐X.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Stephen Ansolabehere and Shanto Iyengar, Going Negative. How PoliticalAdvertisements Shrink & Polarize the Electorate Ann M. Crigler (ed.), The Psychology of Political Communication Thomas M. Holbrook, Do Campaigns Matter? Robert Huckfeldt and John Sprague, Citizens, Politics, and Social Communication. Information and Influence in an Election Campaign Warren Christopher, In the Stream of History: Shaping Foreign Policy for a New Era Roberta S. Sigel, Ambition and Accommodation: How Women View Gender Relations Daniel Archibugi, David Held, and Martin Köhler (eds), Re-imaging Political Community: Studies in Cosmopolitan Democracy     

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Jackson W. Carroll, Barbara G. Wheeler, Daniel O. Aleshire and Penny Being There: Culture and Formation in Two Theoretical Schools Russell T. McCutcheon Manufacturing Religion: The Discourse on Sui Generis Religion and the Politics of Nostalgia Paulo Freire Pedagogy of the Heart Paulo Freire Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those Who Dare Teach Judith Grunert The Course Syllabus: A Learning-Centered Approach University of Cincinnati Making Large Classes Interactive David W. Gill Should God Get Tenure? Richard T. Hughes and William B. Adrian (eds) Models for Christian Higher Educatiuon: Strategies for Survival and Success in the Twenty-First Century     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Testament of Faith , by William Barclay . Denominationalism , by Russell E. Richey (ed.). Christians and the Great Economic Debate , by J. Philip Wogaman . Dialogue and Community , by Carl F. Hallencreutz . A Man Sent By God : The Life of Patriarch Athenagoras of Constantinople , by Demetrios Tsakonas . Ultimate Questions — An anthology of modern Russian religious thought , by Alexander Schmemann (ed.). Daniel , Esther and Jeremiah : The Additions , The Anchor Bible Vol . 44, by Carey A. Moore . The Macmillan Atlas History of Christianity , by Franklin H. Littell .     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: A Theology FOR Artisans OF A New Humanity, by Juan Luis Segundo, S.J., translated by John Drury Theological Investigations. Vol. X: Writings OF 1965-7, II, by Karl Rahner Elucidations, by Hans Urs VON Balthasar, translated by John Riches A Jewish Understanding OF THE New Testament, by Samuel Sandmel Jesus: Inspiring AND Disturbing Presence, by M. de Jonge THE Testimony OF C. F. Andrews, introduced by Daniel O'Connor THE GOD Who Comes, by Carlo Carretto Ja Oder Nein: 50 Jahre Theologie IN Kirche UND Staat, by Hermann Diem Inter-faith Worship, ed. by Marcus Braybrooke     

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Books reviewed in this article: James Arnt Aune, Selling the Free Market: The Rhetoric of Economic Correctness Daniel Bar–Tal, Shared Beliefs in a Society: Social Psychological Analysis Francis A. Beer, Meanings of War & Peace Joseph R. Blaney and William L. Benoit, The Clinton Scandals and the Politics of Image Restoration Ronald A. Heifetz and Marty Linsky, Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Leading John R. Hibbing and Elizabeth Theiss–Morse (eds.), What Is It About Government That Americans Dislike? Jacob Shamir and Michal Shamir, The Anatomy of Public Opinion Joseph B. Underhill–Cady, Death and the Statesman: The Culture and Psychology of U.S. Leaders During War     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Violence Unveiled: Humanity at the Crossroads by Gil Bailie The Feminist Question: Feminist Theology in the Light of Christian Tradition by Francis Martin Doctrine: Systematic theology, Volume II by James Wm. McClendon, Jr. Pattern of Redemption: The Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar by Edward T. Oakes Reclaiming Dietrich Bonhowffer: The Promise of His Theology by Charles Marsh WITTGENSTEIN: A Religious Point of View? by Norman Malcolm, edited with a response by Peter Winch. God and the Philosophers: The Reconciliation of Faith and Reason, Ed. Thomas V. Morris Reasoning and Rhetoric in Religion by Nancey C. Murphy A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity by Daniel Boyarin     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Bhikhu Parekh, Rethinking Multiculturalism: Cultural Diversity and Political Theory Bhikhu Parekh, The Future of Multi‐Ethnic Britain: Report of the Commission on the Future of Multi‐Ethnic Britain Gordon Graham, The Internet://A Philosophical Inquiry Stephen R. L. Clark, Biology and Christian Ethics Daniel A. Dombrowski, Not Even A Sparrow Falls: The Philosophy of Stephen R. L. Clark Shelly Kagan, Normative Ethics Hugh Lacey, Is Science Value Free? M. W. F. Stone and Jonathan Wolff (eds.), The Proper Ambition of Science Eileen Scanlon, Roger Hill and Kirk Junker (eds.), Communicating Science: Professional Contexts Eileen Scanlon, Elizabeth Whitelegg and Simeon Yates, Communicating Science: Contexts and Channels