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Psychology Emotions

Emotional Development

Recent Research Advances

edited by Jacqueline Nadel & Darwin Muir

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2005
Category
Emotions
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780198528845
    Publish Date
    Jan 2005
    List Price
    $222.00

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Description

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 are complex however, and have 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.

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Contributor Notes

Jacqueline Nadel is at CNRS UMR 7593, Hopital de la Salpetriere, Paris, France. Darwin Muir is in the Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.