This study investigated the ability of counseling trainees and undergraduate students to recognize facially expressed emotions in photographs of Caucasian American and Japanese individuals. Fifty-four counseling trainees and 54 undergraduates viewed these photographs and provided their perceptions of the expressed emotion and a ranking of the intensity of the emotion. Results indicated there were no differences in the accuracy of identifying emotions between undergraduates and counseling trainees, no differences in accuracy based on the participants' gender or gender of the poser, and no differences based on the posers' ethnicity. Overall, little variation was discovered among participants' intensity ratings of the facial expressions. The researchers found that participants perceived Japanese facial expressions as more intense than Caucasian American facial expressions, and female facial expressions as more intense than male expressions. Results are discussed in terms of universal and culture-specific aspects of emotion recognition, their relation to previous emotion recognition research findings, implications for training in applied psychology (i.e., counseling, clinical, and school), and future research projects.

Future perceptions consist of an individual’s ambition, view of future events, and plan for life domains. Such perceptions can predict and shape a person’s career development and motivate to pursue and achieve goals in different life roles. Research on emerging adults’ perceptions has important implications for career professionals assisting this population. In this study, the authors investigated the future perceptions of 49 U.S. and 39 Israeli emerging adult university males using thematic analysis. Participants’ responses represented an array of topics and were grouped into the following themes: (a) work, (b) family and relationships, (c) education, (d) material and monetary assets, (e) location, (f) leisure, and (g) general quality of life. Results suggested that culture could be important in how emerging adult males envision their future lives and roles. Recommendations for how career educators and counselors can implement the findings in their work with U.S. and Israeli college students are discussed.

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The purpose of this study was to examine the Choose Respect dating violence prevention program (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, , n.d.‐a) with secondary students in St. Lucia. Multivariate analysis of variance results indicated that the Choose Respect program had a positive influence on participants’ attitudes about control in relationships. Significant gender and school effects were found. Implications of these findings for primary prevention efforts targeting dating violence in St. Lucia and limitations of the study are discussed.