Born in to a Jewish family in 1493, Juan Luis Vives was considered a “Spanish humanist and educational theorist who strongly opposed scholasticism and made his mark as one of the most influential advocates of humanistic learning in the early sixteenth century” (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2012). Based primarily on empirical studies, Vives’s interests in human emotions occurred, resulting in his sensitivity about the consequences of both positive and negative emotions. Vives believed that emotions were shaped not only by inherent temperamental differences, but also by social and environmental influences. Persell, 1990 stated that socialization “refers to the preparation of newcomers to become members of an existing group and to think,