Emotional Development Recent Research Advances [Paperback]

From prenatal life onwards, our emotions play a central role in our development. Exactly how emotions shape our lives is less clear. We know that emotional impairments can have a disastrous effect on development. We know that emotions play a key role in adaptation. We know that traumatic emotional events can scar individuals. The processes through which these emotional changes occur is complex however, and has recently become the subject of considerable interest in the cognitive sciences. In this volume an outstanding group of scientists considers emotional development from fetal life onwards. The book includes views from neuroscience, primatology, robotics, psychopathology, and prenatal development. It also includes studies of emotional development in both normal and clinical populations. The first of its kind, this book will be of major interest to all those studying emotion, from the fields of social, developmental, and clinical psychology, to psychiatry, and neuroscience.

Section I - Psychobiological Approaches and Evolutionary Perspectives
1. The search for the fundamental brain/mind sources of affective experience,Jaak Panksepp & Marcia Smith Pasqualini
2. Emotion in chimpanzee infants: the value of a comparative approach to understand the evolutionary bases of emotion,Kim Bard
3. Action and emotion in development of cultural intelligence: why infants have feelings like ours,Colwyn Trevarthen
4. Maternal-fetal psychobiology: a very early look at emotional development,Amy Salisbury, Penelope Yanni, Linda Lagasse & Barry Lester
5. Emotional processes in human newborns: a functionalist perspective,Robert Soussignan & Benoist Schaal
6. Emotions in early mimesis,Giannis Kugiumutzakis, Theano Kokkinaki, Maria Makrodimitraki & Elena Vitalaki
7. Feeling shy and showing off: self-conscious emotions must regulate self-awareness,Vasuvedi Reddy
8. Infantlsy