What Develops in Emotional Development?: Perspectives on Nature, Evolution and Function
Erich E. H. Loewy, Michael F. Mascolo (Editor), Sharon GriffinBooks.org participates in affiliate programs including Bookshop.org and the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. We may earn a commission from qualifying purchases made through links on this page, at no additional cost to you.
Overview
This timely volume asks the fundamental questions: What are emotions? What do we really mean by emotional development? Theorists and researchers examine the subject from a variety of perspectives- biological, structuralist, functionalist, systems, and social constructionist-and examine such facets of emotion as emotional appraisal processes, feeling states, action-tendencies, cognitive-emotion interactions, psychological defense, and emotional representations. Each author addresses the editors' call for conceptual definitions of emotion and emotional development, and answers their question concerning the role of emotion in socio-cultural context.
The book's ample summary tables and index are sure to be especially useful for researchers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates in developmental psychology and social psychology.
Incl. natural fdns of emotions; alternative trajectories in the devpt of anger-related appraisals; controversy/consensus
Synopsis
This timely volume asks the fundamental questions: What are emotions? What do we really mean by emotional development? Theorists and researchers examine the subject from a variety of perspectives- biological, structuralist, functionalist, systems, and social constructionist-and examine such facets of emotion as emotional appraisal processes, feeling states, action-tendencies, cognitive-emotion interactions, psychological defense, and emotional representations. Each author addresses the editors' call for conceptual definitions of emotion and emotional development, and answers their question concerning the role of emotion in socio-cultural context.
The book's ample summary tables and index are sure to be especially useful for researchers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates in developmental psychology and social psychology.
Booknews
Psychologists and educators offer their views on the three fundamental questions of what they refer to when they talk about emotion, what it is that changes during emotional development, and what roles developing emotions play in the lives of individuals. The perspectives they use are biological and differential emotions, functionalist, systems, and social and cultural. The goal of the collection is to clarify points of agreement and disagreement among theorists and researchers. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.