Emotional Development: Recent Research Advances

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.

Table of Contents

Editors' introduction
1 The search for the fundamental brain/mind sources of affective experience
2 Emotions in chimpanzee infants : the value of a comparative developmental 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
10 The repertoire of infant facial expressions : an 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 sharing and emotion knowledge : typical and impaired development
14 Social-emotional impairment and self-regulation in autism spectrum disorders
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
Emotion, body, and parent-infant interaction