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This chapter deals with the two main forces that are responsible for changes in human emotion and emotional behavior across the life span: maturation and learning. After looking at several examples of each of these forces in action, the status of current theories in the development of emotion are examined. The results of several studies of children’s emotional language highlight the important role that language plays in emotion.
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Here is an article that describes social emotional learning programs for teenagers: http://www.jstor.org/stable/44219022
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Find their article at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-018-0953-y
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The handbook is full of interesting articles. The one by Buss and coauthors provides an overview of the status of developmental theories. Find it at: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-030-17332-6.pdf#page=19
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Find the article at: https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1991.72.3c.1107
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Find it at: https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.52.6.1061
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Find Fischer et al. at: https://doi.org/10.1080/02699939008407142 and the Wikipedia article at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_classification
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In this article, Paola D’Elia and I looked at how well adults recognized the emotion in children’s mini-emotional stories. Find it at: https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1993.77.1.3
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Sommerville & Whissell, 1994. Find the article at: https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1994.79.1.219
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Find the article at: https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000734
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A meta-analysis looks at several other research studies and puts their findings together in an attempt to reach a solid conclusion about the big picture. Find the article at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11065-018-9396-2
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Whissell, C. (2023). Emotion and Development. In: Engaging with Emotion. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21398-4_4
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