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In this chapter, I address the three questions to which the editors have asked me to respond: (1) What is an emotion? (2) What about emotions undergoes developmental change, and, more specifically, what developmental changes occur in one or two specific emotion families? (I will examine shame and pride). (3) What are the functions of these emotions for the child? I address questions 1 and 2 in turn, and, in doing so, I will address question 3.
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Barrett, K.C. (1998). A Functionalist Perspective to the Development of Emotions. 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_5
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