Event Abstract Back to Event Analysis of correlations among emotional changes, hormonal changes, and hypothesis-generating ability in learning science Kwon Yong-Ju1, 2*, Lee Jun-Ki2, Giorgio Ganis2 and Lee Hyo-Nyung3 1 Korea National University of Education, South Korea 2 NYU, United States 3 Kyungbuk National University, South Korea The purpose of this study was to analyze the correlations among learners’ emotional changes, hormonal changes and hypothesis-generating ability in their doing science. In this study, a hypothesis-generating task was developed to test learners’ hypothesis-generating ability in science using R & D method. The task was administered to 22 in-service secondary science teachers. After the administration of the task, the strength of emotion on the hypothesis-generation was measured using the adjective emotional check lists. Then, subjects’ salivary hormone (the cortisol and DHEA) were collected twice (before and after the task administration) for the salivary hormone analysis. The results showed that there were significant correlations among learners’ hypothesis-generating ability, emotional changes and hormonal changes. Specifically, there were strong, positive correlations between the change of their cortisol concentrations and negative emotion with their hypothesis-generating ability. However, there was no significant correlation between the change of their DHEA concentrations and positive emotion with their hypothesis-generating ability. Conference: 41st European Brain and Behaviour Society Meeting, Rhodes Island, Greece, 13 Sep - 18 Sep, 2009. Presentation Type: Poster Presentation Topic: Poster presentations Citation: Yong-Ju K, Jun-Ki L, Ganis G and Hyo-Nyung L (2009). Analysis of correlations among emotional changes, hormonal changes, and hypothesis-generating ability in learning science. Conference Abstract: 41st European Brain and Behaviour Society Meeting. doi: 10.3389/conf.neuro.08.2009.09.352 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. They are made available through the Frontiers publishing platform as a service to conference organizers and presenters. The copyright in the individual abstracts is owned by the author of each abstract or his/her employer unless otherwise stated. Each abstract, as well as the collection of abstracts, are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 (attribution) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and may thus be reproduced, translated, adapted and be the subject of derivative works provided the authors and Frontiers are attributed. For Frontiers’ terms and conditions please see https://www.frontiersin.org/legal/terms-and-conditions. Received: 15 Jun 2009; Published Online: 15 Jun 2009. * Correspondence: Kwon Yong-Ju, Korea National University of Education, Chungbuk, South Korea, kwonyj@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Login Required This action requires you to be registered with Frontiers and logged in. To register or login click here. Abstract Info Abstract The Authors in Frontiers Kwon Yong-Ju Lee Jun-Ki Giorgio Ganis Lee Hyo-Nyung Google Kwon Yong-Ju Lee Jun-Ki Giorgio Ganis Lee Hyo-Nyung Google Scholar Kwon Yong-Ju Lee Jun-Ki Giorgio Ganis Lee Hyo-Nyung PubMed Kwon Yong-Ju Lee Jun-Ki Giorgio Ganis Lee Hyo-Nyung Related Article in Frontiers Google Scholar PubMed Abstract Close Back to top Javascript is disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser settings in order to see all the content on this page.