{"title":"Evolved to Learn","authors":"Colin Holbrook, J. Hahn-Holbrook","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198855903.013.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198855903.013.14","url":null,"abstract":"Emotion adaptations have evolved in response to eons of selection pressures characteristic of social and physical life over the history of our lineage. Cues relevant to these distinct selection pressures should reliably elicit relevant emotions and motivate efficacious behavioral responses. Selection favors the strategic calibration of emotional processes to key contextual factors, such as fitness-relevant individual, situational, and/or cultural differences. This chapter provides an overview of empirical and theoretical work on processes by which emotion adaptations may attune to particularities of self, situation, and culture, integrating neuroscientific, anthropological, and psychological approaches. Finally, developmental processes are discussed as themselves potential adaptations, including a broad outline of how developmental affective scientists might test such hypotheses.","PeriodicalId":315863,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Emotional Development","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116320997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emotional Development and the Growth of Moral Self-Awareness","authors":"Ross A. Thompson","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198855903.013.40","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198855903.013.40","url":null,"abstract":"Traditional moral development theories ascribe a significant role for emotion in moral development. Fear and anxiety over anticipated punishment are precursors to the internalization of moral values, for example, resulting in guilt or shame when children violate these internalized rules. This chapter argues that other emotions are also significant. These include (1) indignation or displeasure when young children observe harm to another; (2) empathic responding to another’s distress, contributing to guilt if the child is aware of culpability for that distress; (3) (empathic) happiness from sharing with another, together with the anticipation of positive affect in both benefactor and recipient from sharing; and (4) moral pride derived from self-initiated prosocial acts. Multiple emotions thus contribute to the development of moral self-awareness in young children, supporting the broader view that early morality is not just a punishment-based system of sanctions and rewards but also derives from young children’s sensitivity to human needs and feelings and their own emotional response to these conditions.","PeriodicalId":315863,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Emotional Development","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128951640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Historicizing Emotional Development","authors":"Karen Vallgårda, S. Olsen","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198855903.013.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198855903.013.25","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter argues that emotions are biocultural and historically contingent phenomena. Our emotional experience is inextricably linked to the words we use to describe our emotions, to the values we attach to them, and to the embodied cultural codes of comportment and expression. The chapter challenges the idea that we can meaningfully speak of “emotional development” in historical contexts in which “emotions” were not yet invented, and introduces the concept of “formation” as a historically sensitive alternative. This concept helps us grasp the historicity of growth and change in collectives, as well as in individuals’ affective lives. Emotional formation is the process through which codes of emotions are learned and imparted, often unwittingly, through discourse and practice. In order to demonstrate the methodological utility of the concept, the chapter then exemplifies processes of emotional formation in children and youth in two different historical and geographical contexts.","PeriodicalId":315863,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Emotional Development","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132595221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Parenting, Emotional Self-Regulation, and Psychosocial Adjustment Across Early Childhood and Adolescence in Chinese and Chinese-Immigrant Sociocultural Contexts","authors":"Jeffrey Liew, Qing Zhou","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198855903.013.37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198855903.013.37","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter introduces a heuristic model and synthesizes extant research on cultural, parental, and child influences on emotion regulation or emotional self-regulation processes and adjustment outcomes in Chinese and Chinese-immigrant families. Consistent with a bioecological framework, where culture is part of the macrosystem, philosophical foundations and core cultural values that are relevant to Chinese parenting and parental socialization of children’s emotion and emotional self-regulation processes are discussed. In addition, major changes that have been observed in Chinese societies and cultures across the 20th and 21st centuries are discussed in relation to parenting and emotional self-regulation processes. In light of such cultural values and dynamics, transactional or bidirectional influences between parent and child factors on children’s emotional self-regulation processes and psychosocial adjustment, along with promising future research directions, are highlighted and discussed.","PeriodicalId":315863,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Emotional Development","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131767784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Caitlin M. Conner, A. T. Wieckowski, Taylor N Day, C. Mazefsky
{"title":"Emotion Development in Autism","authors":"Caitlin M. Conner, A. T. Wieckowski, Taylor N Day, C. Mazefsky","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198855903.013.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198855903.013.11","url":null,"abstract":"From the earliest descriptions, children with autism have been described as presenting with differences in emotional expression and regulation. However, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnostic criteria do not include these emotional differences. More recently, research has begun to investigate the emotional impairments observed in individuals with ASD across the life span, including how it contributes to a range of poor outcomes. Atypical emotion development can be used to differentiate those at risk for ASD from typically developing children. Research has also identified differences in emotional awareness, expression, recognition, and regulation among children and adults with ASD. Priority areas for future research, such as longitudinal studies of emotion dysregulation beginning in early childhood; development of interventions targeting emotion awareness, recognition, and expression; and study and treatment of emotion dysregulation among adults, will be discussed.","PeriodicalId":315863,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Emotional Development","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128344255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Development of Moral Judgments, Emotions, and Sentiments","authors":"E. Turiel","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198855903.013.44","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198855903.013.44","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter addresses interconnections between moral judgments and emotions. The development of morality, which begins in early childhood, involves a construction of reasoning about welfare, justice, and rights. A critique is provided of propositions that emotions are primary in moral functioning. In that context, common uses of intuition and guilt are critiqued, with a reframing of guilt as reflection and regret. Positive emotions of sympathy, empathy, and affection as evaluative appraisals are interconnected with the development of moral judgments. It is also proposed that emotions are not separate from processes of moral thinking and moral decision-making. Additionally, the idea of general sentiments, as somewhat distinct from emotions, is considered as part of the process of moral development. Three key sentiments are identified: the value of life, respect for persons, and human dignity.","PeriodicalId":315863,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Emotional Development","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128096276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emotional Skillfulness and Virtue Acquisition","authors":"Mario De Caro, M. Vaccarezza, Ariele Niccoli","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198855903.013.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198855903.013.3","url":null,"abstract":"In this chapter, the authors offer a sketch of the state of the art as concerns existing accounts of virtue acquisition in relation to automaticity. In particular, the chapter focuses on the so-called “skill model,” which the authors aim to improve by questioning its rather common underlying dualistic picture of the mind. Then, the authors propose an account of skillful emotions by identifying the features that make them both automatic and embedded in an intelligent practice. Finally, the authors show how this view can help the skill model by offering a better description of emotion shaping in virtue acquisition. By doing so, they contend that emotions contribute autonomously and actively to the skillfulness of the habits in which they are embedded.","PeriodicalId":315863,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Emotional Development","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125182020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Halberstadt, Courtney A. Hagan, Fantasy T. Lozada
{"title":"Emotions as Fixatives for Children’s Understandings About the World","authors":"A. Halberstadt, Courtney A. Hagan, Fantasy T. Lozada","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198855903.013.34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198855903.013.34","url":null,"abstract":"Parents’ emotions provide unintentional and intentional communications to their children, attaching themselves to the messages that children receive about the ways of the world. Both theory and research suggest that parents’ emotions impact children’s learning and activate children’s affective orientations to objects, concepts, and people. Applying these concepts to real-life problems, this chapter explores the role of emotions as a “fixative” in the process of socializing children’s understanding of the world and particularly the development of beliefs about race. We suggest that the emotions associated with messages about race are not overtly recognized as part of the messages and that these emotional layers are the invisible glue that hold these messages and subsequent beliefs in position. Although the chapter focuses primarily on negative emotions, it also notes the role of positive emotions, such as pride, with the hope of generating more research on these emotions in relation to racial understanding.","PeriodicalId":315863,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Emotional Development","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128804257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Developing Emotional Intelligence in Social and Emotional Learning","authors":"B. Maxwell, Joanna Peplak","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198855903.013.39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198855903.013.39","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter provides a critical overview of the evidence on the impact of social and emotional learning (SEL) programs on emotional intelligence (EI). The social and emotional learning movement and research on emotional intelligence are intimately linked. However, exuberance for social and emotional learning in educational circles has contributed to a situation in which program implementation and evaluation has gotten ahead of the impact of social and emotional learning on emotional intelligence as a measureable psychological construct, and frequently ignores relevant theoretical issues. Mapping out this terrain, the chapter shows that despite the extensive research on the impact of SEL on key indicators of academic success and youth well-being, compelling evidence that SEL affects the development of EI remains scant.","PeriodicalId":315863,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Emotional Development","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114982552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Guida Veiga, Brenda M. S. da Silva, J. Gibson, C. Rieffe
{"title":"Emotions in Play","authors":"Guida Veiga, Brenda M. S. da Silva, J. Gibson, C. Rieffe","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198855903.013.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198855903.013.28","url":null,"abstract":"Play is an important context for children’s emotional and social development. Most play research has been focused on pretend play; however, observational studies have shown that children spend a considerable amount of time engaged in physical play. Although it is thought to be important, little is known about the role of physical play in children’s emotion socialization. Physical play can be categorized in two forms: exercise play and rough-and-tumble play. Both forms involve moderate to vigorous playful body activity, which is accompanied by physiological arousal. In addition, rough-and-tumble play often involves role taking, requiring children to accurately read their partners’ emotional and intentional expressions, control their anger impulses, and cope with frustration. Recent research has shown that exercise play, especially when engaged with peers, is related to emotion understanding and emotion regulation; but this is less clear for rough-and-tumble play. Besides, physical play provides an important mechanism for peer interactions that is less dependent on verbal interactions, which is especially relevant for children with communication impairments, and hearing loss in particular.","PeriodicalId":315863,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Emotional Development","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127581449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}