Emotional Development: Recent Research Advances

. Ed(s): Nadel, Jacqueline; Muir, Darwin

ISBN 10: 0198528841 / ISBN 13: 9780198528845

Published by Oxford University Press, USA, 2005

About this Item

This volume considers emotional development from foetal life onwards. The book includes views from neuroscience, primatology, robotics, psychopathology, and prenatal development. Editor(s): Nadel, Jacqueline; Muir, Darwin. Num Pages: 480 pages, numerous halftones and line figures. BIC Classification: JMC; JMH; MMH; MMJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 169 x 23. Weight in Grams: 760. . 2005. Illustrated. paperback. . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Emotional Development: Recent Research Advances
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198528841
• ISBN 13: 9780198528845
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

From prenatal life onwards, our emotions play a central role in our development. Exactly how emotions shape our lives is less clear. We know that emotional impairments can have a disastrous effect on development. We know that emotions play a key role in adaptation. We know that traumatic emotional events can scar individuals. The processes through which these emotional changes occur is complex however, and has recently become the subject of considerable interest in the cognitive sciences. In this volume an outstanding group of scientists considers emotional development from fetal life onwards. The book includes views from neuroscience, primatology, robotics, psychopathology, and prenatal development. It also includes studies of emotional development in both normal and clinical populations. The first of its kind, this book will be of major interest to all those studying emotion, from the fields of social, developmental, and clinical psychology, to psychiatry, and neuroscience.

About the Author

Jacqueline Nadel is at CNRS UMR 7593, Hopital de la Salpetriere, Paris, France. Darwin Muir is in the Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.