Extending emotion science to the study of discrete emotions in infants
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Many emotion researchers would probably agree that at least some aspects of discrete emotions are evolutionarily conserved (e.g., the sensation/feeling component cannot be learned). Such agreement probably extends to the notion that aspects of emotions emerge in ontogeny as a function of developmental, learning, and cultural processes. Determining when and under what circumstances they emerge seems largely a matter for empirical research, though theories differ in their predictions and in the way they describe the relevant emotional-, cognitive-, and neuro-developmental processes.
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Primordial emotions may leave traces that consciously or unconsciously influence waking cognitions, images, and behaviors.
“primordial emotions, which include feelings accompanying instinctive behaviors (121) and evolutionarily basic emotions (122), may leave traces that consciously or unconsciously influence waking cognitions, images, and behaviors.”
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- Authors
- Izard, C. E., Woodburn, E. M., & Finlon, K. J.
- Affiliations
- University of Delaware (US)
- Corresponding author
- Izard, Carroll E.
- Venue
- Emotion Review
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2010-03-31
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 134-136
- ISSN
- 1754-0739 (ISSN-L)
- 1754-0747
- OpenAlex
- W2034597529
- Cited by
- 32
- References
- 32
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 6 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 4 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 1.75
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Emotion Review (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Keywords
- discrete emotions, infant emotions, emotional development, ontogeny, emotional learning, culture and emotion
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