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This chapter examines the definition of emotion and how emotions develop. Although many researchers speak of the development of emotion, there is neither consensus about what emotions are nor what it means to say that they develop. These issues have been the focus of an ongoing debate between differential (Izard, 1994; Izard & Malatesta, 1987), cognitive (Frijda, 1993; Lazarus, 1991; Lewis & Brooks-Gunn, 1979; Ortony, Clore, & Collins, 1988; Sroufe, 1979, 1984), and functional approaches to emotion (Barrett, 1993; Campos, 1994; Fischer, Shaver, & Carnochan, 1990). We examine these issues from the perspective of the social process view of emotion (Fogel et al., 1992).
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Dickson, K.L., Fogel, A., Messinger, D. (1998). The Development of Emotion from a Social Process View. In: Mascolo, M.F., Griffin, S. (eds) What Develops in Emotional Development?. Emotions, Personality, and Psychotherapy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1939-7_10
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