Description: I. Introduction.- 1. On the Nature, Development, and Function of Emotions.- 2. The Development and Structure of Emotions.- II. Biological and Differential Emotions Perspectives.- 3. Toward a Neuroscience of Emotion: The Epigenetic Foundations of Emotional Development.- 4. Differential Emotions Theory and Emotional Development: Mindful of Modularity.- III. Functionalist Perspectives.- 5. A Functionalist Perspective to the Development of Emotions.- 6. Emotion and the Possibility of Psychologists Entering into Heaven.- IV. Systems Perspectives.- 7. A Dynamic Systems Approach to Cognition--Emotion Interactions in Development.- 8. Toward a Component Systems Approach to Emotional Development.- 9. Alternative Trajectories in the Development of Anger-Related Appraisals.- V. Social and Cultural Perspectives.- 10. The Development of Emotion from a Social Process View.- 11. The Analysis of Emotions: Dimensions of Variation.- 12. The Narrative Construction of Emotional Life: Developmental Aspects.- VI. Conclusion and Integration.- 13. Alternative Conceptions of Emotional Development: Controversy and Consensus.

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