Emotional Development
Published on 1. January 2005
Book
Hardback
476 pages
978-0-19-852883-8 (ISBN)
Description
From prenatal life onwards, our emotions play a central role in our development. Exactly how emotions shape our lives is less clear. We know that emotional impairments can have a disastrous effect on development. We know that emotions play a key role in adaptation. We know that traumatic emotional events can scar individuals. The processes through which these emotional changes occur is complex however, and has recently become the subject of considerable interest in the cognitive sciences. In this volume an outstanding group of scientists considers emotional development from fetal life onwards. The book includes views from neuroscience, primatology, robotics, psychopathology, and prenatal development. It also includes studies of emotional development in both normal and clinical populations. The first of its kind, this book will be of major interest to all those studying emotion, from the fields of social, developmental, and clinical psychology, to psychiatry, and neuroscience.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
numerous halftones and line figures
ISBN-13
978-0-19-852883-8 (9780198528838)
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Content
SECTION I - PSYCHOBIOLOGICAL APPROACHES AND EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVES; 1. The search for the fundamental brain/mind sources of affective experience; 2. Emotion in chimpanzee infants: the value of a comparative approach to understand the evolutionary bases of emotion; 3. Action and emotion in development of cultural intelligence: why infants have feelings like ours; 4. Maternal-fetal psychobiology: a very early look at emotional development; 5. Emotional processes in human newborns: a functionalist perspective; 6. Emotions in early mimesis; 7. Feeling shy and showing off: self-conscious emotions must regulate self-awareness; 8. Infant perception and production of emotions during face-to-face interactions with live and 'virtual' adults; 9. Emotion understanding: robots as tools and models; SECTION II - COMPARATIVE APPROACHES: TYPICAL AND IMPAIRED EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT; 10. The repertoire of infant facial expressions: a ontogenetic perspective; 11. Why is connection with others so critical? The formation of dyadic states of consciousness and the expansion of individuals' states of consciousness: coherence governed selection and the co-creation of meaning out of messy meaning making; 12. Prenatal depression effects on the fetus and neonate; 13. Emotion and the evolving self-other system: typical and impaired development; 14. Social-emotional impairment and self-regulation in autism spectrum disorder; 15. Emotional regulation and affective disorders in children and adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder; 16. Loss of emotional fluency as a developmental phenotype: the example of anhedonia; Final discussion - an overview