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Our emotional language has comparable descriptors, such as "hot-head" and "cool-breezy". The theory offers an explanation for the evolution of common facial expressions of emotion in mammals. Little experimental work has been done to extend the theory, however.
The history of emotions is a field of historical research concerned with human emotion, especially variations among cultures and historical periods in the experience and expression of emotions. Beginning in the 20th century with writers such as Lucien Febvre and Peter Gay , an expanding range of methodological approaches is being applied.
Darwin also published his observations of the development of one of his own sons in 1877, noting the child's emotional, moral, and linguistic development. [ 9 ] Despite this early emphasis on developmental processes, theories of evolution and theories of development have long been viewed as separate, or even opposed to one another (for ...
Saarni's research on development of emotion understanding and competence was influenced by her clinical expertise and practice. [8] Saarni explored emotion communication in families, [9] starting with attachment relationships that infants develop with their caregivers and examining ways that parents influence their children's emotional development over time. [10]
This field examines change [2] across three major dimensions, which are physical development, cognitive development, and social emotional development. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Within these three dimensions are a broad range of topics including motor skills , executive functions , moral understanding , language acquisition , social change , personality ...
The term emotive, coined by anthropologist William Reddy, attempts to distinguish societal emotional values and expressions from individual's emotional experience. In The Making of Romantic Love , Reddy argues that romantic love is a 12th-century European construct, built in response to the parochial view that sexual desire was immoral, and was ...
Snake Pits, Talking Cures & Magic Bullets: A History of Mental Illness. Brookfield, CT: Twenty-First Century Books. ISBN 978-0-7613-2704-2. OCLC 50253057 – via Internet Archive. Scull, Andrew (1989). Social Order/Mental Disorder: Anglo-American Psychiatry in Historical Perspective. Medicine and society. Vol. 3.
Discrete emotion theory is the claim that there is a small number of core emotions.For example, Silvan Tomkins (1962, 1963) concluded that there are nine basic affects which correspond with what we come to know as emotions: interest, enjoyment, surprise, distress, fear, anger, shame, dissmell (reaction to bad smell) and disgust.