Faig Kelly E, Smith Karen E, Dimitroff Stephanie J
Department of Psychology, Hamilton College, 198 College Hill Road, Clinton, NY 13502.
Department of Psychology, the University of Wisconsin, 1500 Highland Blvd, Madison, WI, 53705.
Emot Rev. 2023 Apr;15(2):127-144. doi: 10.1177/17540739231163180. Epub 2023 Mar 16.
Frameworks of emotional development have tended to focus on how environmental factors shape children's emotion understanding. However, individual experiences of emotion represent a complex interplay between both external environmental inputs and internal somatovisceral signaling. Here, we discuss the importance of afferent signals and coordination between central and peripheral mechanisms in affective response processing. We propose that incorporating somatovisceral theories of emotions into frameworks of emotional development can inform how children understand emotions in themselves and others. We highlight promising directions for future research on emotional development incorporating this perspective, namely afferent cardiac processing and interoception, immune activation, physiological synchrony, and social touch.
情感发展框架往往侧重于环境因素如何塑造儿童的情感理解。然而，情感的个体体验代表了外部环境输入与内部躯体内脏信号之间的复杂相互作用。在此，我们讨论传入信号以及中枢和外周机制之间的协调在情感反应处理中的重要性。我们提出，将情感的躯体内脏理论纳入情感发展框架可以为儿童如何理解自己和他人的情感提供信息。我们强调了从这一视角出发，情感发展未来研究的几个有前景的方向，即传入性心脏处理与内感受、免疫激活、生理同步以及社交触摸。
