What Develops in Emotional Development?

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. On the Nature, Development, and Functions of Emotions

      • Sharon Griffin, Michael F. Mascolo

      Pages 3-27

   3. The Development and Structure of Emotions

      • Michael Lewis

      Pages 29-50

3. Biological and Differential Emotions Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51

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   2. Toward a Neuroscience of Emotion

      • Jaak Panksepp, Brian Knutson, Douglas L. Pruitt

      Pages 53-84

   3. Differential Emotions Theory and Emotional Development

      • Brian P. Ackerman, Jo Ann A. Abe, Carroll E. Izard

      Pages 85-106

4. Functionalist Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107

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   2. A Functionalist Perspective to the Development of Emotions

      • Karen Caplovitz Barrett

      Pages 109-133

   3. Emotion and the Possibility of Psychologists Entering into Heaven

      • Terrance Brown, Arnold Kozak

      Pages 135-155

5. Systems Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157

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   2. A Dynamic Systems Approach to Cognition—Emotion Interactions in Development

      • Marc D. Lewis, Lori Douglas

      Pages 159-188

   3. Toward a Component Systems Approach to Emotional Development

      • Michael F. Mascolo, Debra Harkins

      Pages 189-217

   4. Alternative Trajectories in the Development of Anger-Related Appraisals

      • Michael F. Mascolo, Sharon Griffin

      Pages 219-249

6. Social and Cultural Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 251-251

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   2. The Development of Emotion from a Social Process View

      • K. Laurie Dickson, Alan Fogel, Daniel Messinger

      Pages 253-271

   3. The Analysis of Emotions

      • Nico H. Frijda, Batja Mesquita

      Pages 273-295

   4. The Narrative Construction of Emotional Life

      • James C. Mancuso, Theodore R. Sarbin

      Pages 297-316

7. Conclusion and Integration

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 317-317

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   2. Alternative Conceptions of Emotional Development

      • Michael F. Mascolo, Sharon Griffin

      Pages 319-340

The problem of development is central in the study of emotional life for two basic reasons. First, emotional life so clearly changes (dramatically in the early years) with new emotional reactions emerging against the backdrop of an increasing sensitivity to context and with self-regulation of emotion emerging from a striking dependence on regulatory assistance from caregivers. Such changes demand developmental analysis. At the same time, understanding such profound changes will surely inform our understanding of the nature of development more generally. The complexity of emotional change, when grasped, will reveal the elusive nature of development itself. At the outset, we know that development is complex. We must take seriously what is present at any given phase, including the newborn period, because a developmental analysis disallows something emerging from noth­ ing. Still, it is equally nondevelopmental to posit that new forms of new processes were simply present in their precursors. Rather, development is characterized by transformations in which more complex structures and organization "emerge" from new integration of prior components and new capacities. These new forms and organizations cannot be specified from prior conditions but are due to transactions of the evolving organism with its environment over time. They are not simply in the genome, and they are not simply conditioned by the environment. They are the result of the develop­ mental process.

• cognition
• emotion
• feeling
• interaction
• neuroscience
• psychology

• Department of Psychology, Merrimack College, North Andover, USA

  Michael F. Mascolo

• Frances L. Hiatt School of Psychology, Clark University, Worcester, USA

  Sharon Griffin

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