The Oxford Handbook of Emotional Development

Emotional Development is a topic that embraces a range of disciplines, including, psychology, neuroscience, sociology, primatology, philosophy, history, cognitive science, computer science, and education.

The Oxford Handbook of Emotional Development is the first volume of its kind to include such a multidisciplinary group of experts to consider this topic, and as such, provides perhaps the most complete examination yet of how emotions develop and manifest themselves neuronally, intra- and interpersonally, across different cultures and species, and over time.

The volume is separated into five themes: macro and micro underpinnings; communication and understanding; interactive contexts; socialization and learning; and morality and prosocial behaviour. Each section includes contributions from researchers in at least three disciplines, resulting in a volume that is destined to provoke the interested reader into either purposively or accidentally discovering emotional development from novel and stimulating perspectives. The chapters are written to be concise in their overview and accessible to the researcher or intellectually curious person alike. The reader can enjoy state of the art critical analysis of emotional development from different viewpoints, which, whether dipped into casually or read as a whole, will provide the best view of not only what we know today about emotional development, but also where the future study of emotional development lies.

The Oxford Handbook of Emotional Development is an original and important contribution to the literature in psychology and the affective sciences.

Daniel Dukes, Postdoctoral researcher, chEERS Laboratory, University of Fribourg, Switzerland,Eric Walle, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of California, Merced,Andrea Samson, Associate Professor, chEERS Laboratory, University of Fribourg

Daniel Dukes worked in special education before returning to academia. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Fribourg and is Co-General Editor of the Studies of Emotion and Social Interaction series at Cambridge University Press. His research mainly focuses on
socio-emotional development and processes, including affective social learning.

Andrea C. Samson is Associate Professor in psychology at Unidistance, Switzerland and holds a Swiss National Science Foundation-funded professorship at the Institute of Special Education, University of Fribourg. She is the director of the chEERS Lab, a team of researchers interested in
socio-emotional processes in developmental disorders and intellectual disabilities.

Eric A. Walle is an Associate Professor of Psychological Sciences at the University of California, Merced. He is the Director of the Interpersonal Development Lab and conducts research examining emotion, socio-emotional development, and developmental transitions. He also serves on the Executive
Board of the International Society for Research on Emotion.

Section One: Theory
1. Evolved to learn: Emotions as calibrational adaptations, Colin Holbrook and Jennifer Hahn-Holbrook
2. Changing standards in emotional development: The history factor, Peter Stearns
3. Why Are Humans So Emotional? An Explanation from Evolutionary Sociology, Jonathan Turner
4. Current challenges and advances in computational and artificial agent modelling for the simulation of social affective learning and regulation of motivated behaviours, David Rudrauf, Andrea Samson, and Martin Debban?
5. The Development of Appraisals and Discrete Emotions, Eric Walle
6. Statistical Learning in an Emotional World, Rista C. Plate, Kristina Woodard, and Seth D. Pollak
7. Emotion Regulation Across the Lifespan, Michaela Riediger and Jennifer Bellingtier
8. The development of cognitive reappraisal to regulate emotions from infancy to adolescence, Kalee De France and Tom Hollenstein
Section Two: Communication & Understanding
9. The function of emotional expressions: An ontogenic and phylogenic comparison, Yena Kim and Kret Mariska
10. Historicizing Emotion Development, Karen Vallg?rda and Stephanie Olsen
11. Developmental Changes in Emotion Understanding During Middle Childhood, Kristin Lagattuta, Hannah Kramer, and Karen Hjortsvang Lara
12. Differentiation and language acquisition in children's understanding of emotion, Sherri Widen and Nicole Nelson
13. The social and affective power of humor in infancy, Gina Mireault
14. Neuroscientific approaches to the study of self- and social emotion regulation during development, Jennifer Silvers and Adriana Mendez Leal
15. Emotion Development in Autism, Caitlin Conner, Andrea Trubanova Wieckowski, Taylor Day, and Carla Mazefsky
16. Impact of hearing loss on children's emotional development and mental health, Lizet Ketelaar, John Lambie, Boya Li, Adva Eichengreen, Anat Zaidman-Zait, and Carolien Rieffe
Section Three: Interactive Contexts
17. Emotional Engagement and Social Understanding, Vasudeva Reddy and Vanello Daniel
18. Emotions as Felt Patterns of Engagement: A Relational-Developmental Approach, Michael Mascolo
19. Comparative perspectives of socio-emotional development: Insights from chimpanzees and bonobos, Zanna Clay, Christine Webb, Teresa Romero, and Frans BM de Waal
20. Developmental Methods for Emotion Dynamics, Jessica Lougheed
21. Early interaction: New approaches, Daniel S. Messinger, Jacquelyn Moffitt, Samantha G. Mitsven, Yeojin Amy Ahn, Stephanie Custode, Evgeniy Chervonenko, Saad Sadiq, Mei-Ling Shyu, and Lynn K. Perry
22. Emotion Regulation in Couples Across the Life Span, Claudia Haase, Emily Hittner, and Jacquelyn Stephens
23. Play and emotions; the effect of physical play on children's social well-being, Guida Veiga, Brenda MS da Silva, Jenny Louise Gibson, and Carolien Rieffe
24. The potential of board games to promote emotional competences, Andrea Samson, Linda Dell'Angela, David Sander, and Alexandra Zaharia
Section Four: Socialization and Learning
25. Emotion Development in Context, Rebecca J. Erickson and Marci Cottingham
26. Affective Social Learning: a lens for developing a fuller picture of socialization processes, Fabrice Cl?ment and Daniel Dukes
27. Emotional development across cultures, Tanya Broesch & Jeremy Carpendale
28. Emotions as Fixatives for Children's Understandings about the World, Amy Halberstadt
29. Parenting, Emotion Regulation, and Psychosocial Adjustment in Chinese and Chinese Immigrant Children and Adolescents, Jeffrey Liew and Qing Zhou
30. Emotional Frontiers, Stephanie Olsen and Karen Vallg?rda
31. Development of achievement emotions, Rheinard Pekrun
32. Educational Applications of Social and Emotional Learning: A Review of Normative and Conceptual Critiques, Bruce Maxwell and Joanna Peplak
Section Five: Morality and Prosocial Behavior
33. The development of moral judgments, emotions, and sentiments, Elliot Turiel
34. Inequality and Moral Emotions, Steve Hitlin and Sarah Harkness
35. Emotional skilfulness and virtue acquisition, Mario De Caro, Maria Silvia Vaccarezza, and Ariele Niccoli
36. The prosocial functions of guilt in early childhood, Amrisha Vaish
37. Development, Culture, and Neurobiology of Moral Emotions in Ethnic/Racial Minority Children: A Case Study of U.S. Latino/a Children, Gustavo Carlo, Paul D. Hastings, J. Logan Dicus, and Elisa Ugarte
38. I feel, you feel, we feel: The role of emotion in early prosocial beahvior, Aleksandra Petkova and Celia Brownell
39. Emotional development and the growth of moral self-awareness, Ross A. Thompson
40. Emotion understanding and cooperative problem-solving in children, 1. Karine M.P. Viana, Juliana Lucena, Imac Maria Zambrana, Paul L. Harris & Francisco Pons