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How are we to understand the complex forces that shape human behavior? A variety of diverse perspectives, drawing upon studies of human behavioral ontogeny, as well as humanity's evolutionary herit age seem to provide the best likelihood of success. It is in the attempt to synthesize such potentially disparate approaches to human develop ment into an integrated whole that we undertake this series on the Genesis of Behavior. In many respects, the incredible burgeoning of research in child development the last or like a lines over decade two seems thousand of inquiry spreading outward in an incoherent starburst of effort. The need exists to provide, on an ongoing basis, an arena of discourse within which the threads of continuity between those diverse lines of research on human development can be woven into a fabric of meaning and understanding. Scientists, scholars, and those who attempt to translate their efforts into the practical realities of the care and guidance of infants and children are the audience that we seek to reach. Each requires the opportunity to see-to the degree that our knowledge in given areas permits-various aspects of development in a coherent, integrated fashion. It is hoped that this series-by bringing together research on infant biology; developing infant capacities; animal models, the impact of social, cultural, and familial forces on development, and the distorted products of such forces under certain circumstances-will serve these important social and scientific needs.
List of contents
Introduction: Issues in Affect Development.- On Emotion and Its Development: A Working Paper.- Facial Expression and Affect Development.- Hearts and Faces: A Study in the Measurement of Emotion.- Emotional Expression in Infancy: I. Initial Studies of Social Signaling and an Emergent Model.- The Emergence of Fear on the Visual Cliff.- Affect Development and Cognition in a Piagetian Context.- Self-Knowledge and Emotional Development.- Toward a Theory of Empathic Arousal and Development.- The Nature of Complex, Unlearned Responses.- Affective Maturation and the Mother-Infant Relationship.- A Clinician's View of Affect Development in Infancy.- An Organizational View of Affect: Illustration from the Study of Down's Syndrome Infants.- Emotional Expression in Infancy: II. Early Deviations in Down's Syndrome.- Cognitive and Communicative Features of Emotional Experience, or Do You Show What You Think You Feel?.- Prior State, Transition Reactions, and the Expression of Emotion.- On the Ontogenesis of Emotions and Emotion-Cognition Relationships in Infancy.
