The articles in this issue are intended to challenge our concepts and take research on emotional development in new directions.
Toward this end, this special issue includes empirical studies, theoretical articles, novel conceptualizations, methodological innovations, and invited commentaries from scholars across a range of disciplines.
Special Issue Editors
Table of contents
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Progress in Understanding the Emergence of Human Emotion
Seth D. Pollak, Linda A. Camras, and Pamela M. Cole
New Ways to Conceptualize Emotion and Emotional Development
- Expressions as Signs and Their Significance for Emotional Development
Manfred Holodynski and Dorothee Seeger - Emotion Words, Emotion Concepts, and Emotional Development in Children: A Constructionist Hypothesis
Katie Hoemann, Fei Xu, and Lisa Feldman Barrett - Culture-Specific Development of Early Mother–Infant Emotional Co-Regulation: Italian, Cameroonian, and West African Immigrant Dyads
Manuela Lavelli, Cecilia Carra, Germano Rossi, and Heidi Keller - Understanding the Development of Face and Emotion Processing Under a Predictive Processing Framework
Mariana R. Pereira, Fernando Barbosa, Michelle de Haan, and Fernando Ferreira-Santos - Rethinking Emotions in the Context of Infants' Prosocial Behavior: The Role of Interest and Positive Emotions
Stuart I. Hammond and Jesse K. Drummond - Fear in Infancy: Lessons From Snakes, Spiders, Heights, and Strangers
Vanessa LoBue and Karen E. Adolph
New Ways to Consider Mechanisms Underlying Emotion and Emotion Change
- Empathic Responding and Hippocampal Volume in Young Children
Jessica A. Stern, Morgan Botdorf, Jude Cassidy, and Tracy Riggins - Spatial and Temporal Cortical Variability Track With Age and Affective Experience During Emotion Regulation in Youth
João F. Guassi Moreira, Katie A. McLaughlin, and Jennifer A. Silvers - Expressive Suppression of Negative Emotions in Children and Adolescents: Theory, Data, and a Guide for Future Research
Jacquelyn T. Gross and Jude Cassidy
New Methodological Approaches to Exploring Emotion and Emotional Development
- Age Differences in Emotion Regulation Strategy Use, Variability, and Flexibility: An Experience Sampling Approach
Lizbeth Benson, Tammy English, David E. Conroy, Aaron L. Pincus, Denis Gerstorf, and Nilam Ram - The Promises and Perils of Automated Facial Action Coding in Studying Children's Emotions
Aleix M. Martinez - Adolescents' Emotion System Dynamics: Network-Based Analysis of Physiological and Emotional Experience
Xiao Yang, Nilam Ram, Jessica P. Lougheed, Peter C. M. Molenaar, and Tom Hollenstein
Invited Commentaries
- The Developing Brain as Historical Artifact
Rob Boddice - Something Old, Something New: Leveraging What We Know to Optimize New Directions in Emotion Development Research
Amrisha Vaish - Modeling the Evolution and Development of Emotions
Willem E. Frankenhuis - The Future of Emotion Regulation Research Is in How We Measure the Dynamics of Change
Tracy A. Dennis-Tiwary - Context and Dynamics: The New Frontier for Developmental Research on Emotion Regulation
Jennifer S. Silk - Could Emotion Development Really Be the Acquisition of Emotion Concepts?
Justin D'Arms and Richard Samuels - Meeting Infant Affect
Vasudevi Reddy
