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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452796103321

Autore

Lewis Michael <1937 January 10->

Titolo

The rise of consciousness and the development of emotional life / / Michael Lewis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : The Guilford Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

1-4625-1264-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (370 p.)

Disciplina

152.4

Soggetti

Consciousness

Emotions

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: 1. Studying Emotional Development -- 2. Deconstructing Emotions: Elicitors, Action Patterns, and Experiences -- 3. Multiple Emotions and Moods -- 4. The Early Emotions -- 5. The Rise of Consciousness -- 6. The Transforming Role of Consciousness: Self-Conscious Emotions, Social Relationships, and Mentalism -- 7. Lying and Deception in Emotional Life -- 8. The Self-Conscious Emotions -- 9. Temperament, Emotion, and Stress -- 10. The Socialization of Emotion -- 11. Emotional Development Gone Awry -- 12. The Fugue.

Sommario/riassunto

Synthesizing decades of influential research and theory, Michael Lewis demonstrates the centrality of consciousness for emotional development. At first, infants' competencies constitute innate reactions to particular physical events in the child's world. These ""action patterns"" are not learned, but are readily influenced by temperament and social interactions. With the rise of consciousness, these early competencies become reflected feelings, giving rise to the self-conscious emotions of empathy, envy, and embarrassment, and, later, shame, guilt, and pride. Focusing on typically develop