Department of Psychology and Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Department of Psychology, DePaul University.
Dev Psychol. 2019 Sep;55(9):1801-1811. doi: 10.1037/dev0000789.
In the past several decades, research on emotional development has flourished. Scientists have made progress in understanding infants', children's, and adults' abilities to recognize, communicate, and regulate their emotions. However, many questions remain unanswered or only partly answered. We are poised to move from descriptions of aspects of emotional functioning to conceptualizing and studying the developmental mechanisms that underlie those aspects. The gaps in our knowledge provide numerous opportunities for further investigation. With this special issue of Developmental Psychology, we aim to stimulate such progress, especially among colleagues at the beginning of their careers. The articles in this issue are intended to challenge our concepts and take research on emotional development in new directions. Toward this end, this special issue includes empirical studies, theoretical articles, novel conceptualizations, methodological innovations, and invited commentaries from scholars across a range of disciplines. In this introductory essay, we briefly review the history of research on emotional development and provide an overview of the contributions of this special issue with thoughts about the current state of the developmental science and areas in which further advancement on emotional development must be made. These include understanding the nature of emotion itself, identifying the mechanisms that produce developmental changes, examining emotion regulation within differing social contexts, and creating measures of culture that acknowledge globalization, historical change, and within-culture differences. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
在过去的几十年中，情感发展的研究蓬勃发展。科学家们在理解婴儿、儿童和成人识别、交流和调节情绪的能力方面取得了进展。然而，许多问题仍然没有答案，或者只是部分得到解答。我们正准备从描述情感功能的各个方面，转向概念化和研究这些方面背后的发展机制。我们知识上的差距为进一步的研究提供了许多机会。本期《发展心理学》特刊旨在激发这种进展，特别是在职业生涯早期的同事。本期特刊中的文章旨在挑战我们的观念，并为情感发展的研究开辟新的方向。为此，本期特刊包括实证研究、理论文章、新颖的概念化、方法创新，以及来自不同学科领域的学者的特邀评论。在这篇介绍性文章中，我们简要回顾了情感发展研究的历史，并概述了本期特刊的贡献，同时对发展科学的现状以及在情感发展方面必须取得进一步进展的领域进行了思考。这些领域包括理解情绪本身的本质、确定产生发展变化的机制、在不同的社会背景下研究情绪调节，以及创建能够承认全球化、历史变化和文化内部差异的文化衡量标准。（PsycINFO 数据库记录（c）2019 APA，保留所有权利）。
