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The contributors to this volume have put forth a variety of perspectives addressing the nature, development, and functions of emotion. These models can be usefully understood in terms of four general categories. These include characterizations of emotions as (1) discrete states, (2) multicomponent processes, (3) emergent coordinations of self-organizing systems, and (4) constructed modes of experience. Consistent with the recent trends in emotion theory reviewed in the introductory chapter, the approaches to emotion represented in this volume differ with respect to the number of component systems invoked to define or explain emotion, as well as in the relations among those proposed systems. In what follows, for each general approach to emotional development, we examine the ways in which the concept of emotion is defined, what about emotion undergoes developmental change, and the proposed functions of emotional processes.
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Mascolo, M.F., Griffin, S. (1998). Alternative Conceptions of Emotional Development. 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_13
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