Main description:

This up-to-date summary of research in the field highlights the pivotal role that emotions play in personality formation and social behavior. The authors discuss this research in its historical context, placing current developments within the broader framework of the field's own research history, and that of developmental psychology in general. They treat developmental topics from both the classic age-comparative and normative-descriptive approaches, as well as from an individual differences perspective.

Contents:

Introduction: Historical Background. Attachment: The Development of Attachment. Differential Attachment: Origins and Sequelae. Emotion Expression and Its Socialization: The First Wave of Research: Behaviorism and Psychoanalysis. The Second Wave of Research: Functionalist and Cognitive Approaches. Anger and Aggression. Empathy and Prosocial Behavior. Emotion and Personality Development: The Role of Emotion in Personality: Organizational Models. A Discrete Emotions Functionalist Model of Personality Development: Part I: The Fundamentals. A Discrete Emotions Functionalist Model of Personality Development: Part II: Illustrations from Biography and Empirical Research. Emotion and Personality Change. Concluding Thoughts. Index.