Abstract
Emotion understanding facilitates the development of healthy social interactions. To develop emotion knowledge, infants and young children must learn to make inferences about people's dynamically changing facial and vocal expressions in the context of their everyday lives. Given that emotional information varies so widely, the emotional input that children receive might particularly shape their emotion understanding over time. This review explores how variation in children's received emotional input shapes their emotion understanding and their emotional behavior over the course of development. Variation in emotional input from caregivers shapes individual differences in infants’ emotion perception and understanding, as well as older children's emotional behavior. Finally, this work can inform policy and focus interventions designed to help infants and young children with social-emotional development.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 137-144 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 2022 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Social Psychology
- Public Administration
Keywords
- emotion knowledge
- emotion perception
- emotional development
- emotional facial expressions
- emotional input