Exploring the Role of Emotions in Moral Education: Effects of Student and Teacher Emotions on Learning Outcomes

This experiment primarily explores the role of teacher and student emotions in moral education, focusing on how teachers' emotional expression styles (explicit vs. implicit) and students' emotional states during the learning process (happiness, neutrality, or rational sadness) influence learning outcomes across three dimensions: perception, memory, and value identification. A total of 72 undergraduate students participated in the experiment. Data were primarily collected on students' pre-experiment emotions, induced experimental emotions, post-induction (classroom emotions), post-class emotions, students' evaluations of teachers' emotional expressions, pre- and post-questionnaire scores, as well as perception and memory performance during classroom tests.