The purpose of the study is to establish the types of emotions that are expressed by primary school teachers, their frequency, and the situations that trigger them. Teachers were observed by primary education students during their practical work at school. The observations of 108 teachers in 93 primary schools in Slovenia were analysed. The results show that teachers express a variety of emotions with the unpleasant ones prevailing. Anger was the most frequently expressed emotion. The situations that triggered emotions were varied. Among them, students’ discipline and academic achievement triggered the majority of pleasant and unpleasant emotions in teachers.

The aim of the article is to demonstrate the nature of the relationship between negative emotions and the creation of hostility in the practice of social engineering and propaganda activities. The hypothesis adopted is the recognition that there is a mutually significant relationship between the creation of hostile status entities and the use of negative emotions. Negative emotions help build enmity and hostility entities stimulate negative emotions. Hostility and negative emotions are very useful tools of political influence. They make it possible to discredit external and internal enemies, to mobilise and integrate supporters and build the desired image of a political leader. The empirical study and media content analysis revealed examples of the widespread use of hostility and negative emotions as tools of political influence in Poland.

Daily Life Esthetics. An Analysis of Emotional Patterns

Modern industrial design successfully combines beauty with usefulness. To describe this trend the term „emotional design” has been created so as to emphasize that utility is a necessary but not a sufficient condition of market success. This form of design might have been a response to a customers’ need for everyday objects not only to be practical but also to be beautiful and to evoke emotions. The basic model of emotional design by Donald Norman involves emotions on three levels: visceral, behavioral and reflective. The application of psychological knowledge seems reasonable on each of these levels. Most importantly, such knowledge will contribute to a better understanding why associating an object with emotions works and how it can be used most effectively.