Integrating Emotions and Cognition Throughout the Lifespan

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Emotions and Cognition: From Myth and Philosophy to Modern Psychology and Neuroscience

   • Gisela Labouvie-Vief

   Pages 1-16

3. Equilibrium and Disequilibrium in Development

   • Gisela Labouvie-Vief

   Pages 17-28

4. Expansion and Reorganization in Development: Neurobiological Mechanisms

   • Gisela Labouvie-Vief

   Pages 29-44

5. Cognitive–Emotional Development in Infants

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   Pages 45-66

6. Cognitive–Emotional Development in Childhood

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   Pages 67-88

7. Cognitive–Emotional Development from Adolescence to Adulthood

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   Pages 89-116

8. Emotion–Cognition Relations in Aging

   • Gisela Labouvie-Vief

   Pages 117-141

9. ERRATUM TO: Expansion and Reorganization in Development: Neurobiological Mechanisms

   • Gisela Labouvie-Vief

   Pages E1-E1

10. Back Matter

    Pages 143-149

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This book synthesizes the literature on emotional development and cognition across the lifespan. The book proposes a core language by which to describe positive and problematic developmental changes by recourse to a parsimonious set of core principles, such as elevations or declines in tension thresholds and their relation to the waxing and waning of the cognitive system over the life course. It integrates, similarly, the lifelong consequences of the positive or damaging aspects of the social milieu in fostering increases in tension thresholds with their advanced capacity for maintaining equilibrium and warding off stress versus a lowering of tension thresholds with disturbances of equilibrium maintenance and heightened susceptibility to stress and deregulation.

• Aging and cognition
• Aging and emotion
• Disequilibrium in development
• Emotion and cognition
• Emotion and cognition myth
• Emotions from adolescence to early adulthood
• Emotions in childhood
• Emotions in infancy
• Emotions in middle adulthood
• Equilibrium in development
• Neurobiology and cognition
• Neurobiology and emotion
• Philosophy of emotion and cognition
• Philosophy to Modern Psychology and Neurobiology
• Psychology of emotion and cognition

• University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

  Gisela Labouvie-Vief

Gisela Labouvie-Vief received her Ph.D.in Life/Span Developmental Psychology from West Virginia University in 1972. In 1976, she joined the faculty of Psychology at Wayne State University, where she held the title of Distinguished Professor of Psychology until she received a call from the University of Geneva in 2005. Dr. Labouvie-Vief’s work has been acknowledged by a series of Awards and Distinctions, including the APA, Division 20, Distinguished Research Achievement Award in 2001, the 2006 Creative Longevity and Wisdom Outstanding Researcher Award, Fielding Graduate University, and Distinguished Faculty Awards from Wayne State University in 2009. She has held visiting Professor positions at the University of Chicago (1992), Harvard University (1981-1983), the University of California at Berkeley (1999), and the Max Planck Institute Berlin (2002).

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