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After a survey of research on the development of emotions and their expression, I describe the present model of emotional development in infancy. I list four major emotions that develop at each cognitive substage in infancy, which gives a list of basic emotions much longer than typically found.
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Young, G. (2011). Emotional Development in Infancy. In: Development and Causality. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9422-6_22
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