ABSTRACT
A number of children of different ages were put through a group of situations designed to bring out fear responses if any were present. The whole field of emotions is a very thrilling one and one which opens up real vistas of practical application in the home and in the school—even in everyday life. The duration of laughing and crying was noted and the time of day it occurred and, most carefully of all, the general situations calling out these reactions were recorded and the after effects crying and laughing had upon subsequent behavior. There is a certain amount of sentimentality going the pedagogical rounds, in this country to the effect that no negative reactions should ever be forced on the child. Other forms of emotional behavior, popularly known as sorrow, grief, resentment, anger, reverence, awe, justice, mercy, seem to the behaviorist to be quite simple.
