Emotion Words, Emotion Concepts, and Emotional Development in Children: A Constructionist Hypothesis

In this article, we integrate two constructionist approaches-the theory of constructed emotion and rational constructivism-to introduce several novel hypotheses for understanding emotional development. We first discuss the hypothesis that emotion categories are abstract and conceptual, whose instanc...

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Published in:Developmental psychology 2019-09, Vol.55 (9), p.1830-1849
Main Authors: Hoemann, Katie, Xu, Fei, Barrett, Lisa Feldman
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Brain
Child
Child Development
Child, Preschool
Childhood Development
Children
Classification
Cognitive Development
Concept Formation
Concept Formation - physiology
Concepts
Conceptual development
Constructionism
Constructivism
Constructivism (Learning)
Culture (Anthropological)
Emotion Recognition
Emotional Development
Emotional words
Emotions
Emotions - physiology
Human
Humans
Hypotheses
Infant
Infants
Labeling
Meaning
Perceptions
Prediction
Psychological Patterns
Psychological Theory
Social constructionism
Social Learning
Vocabulary
Words (Phonetic Units)
Young Children
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