Emotion, Development, and Self-Organization: Dynamic Systems Approaches to Emotional Development

by Edited by Marc D. Lewis , Isabela Granic

• ISBN13: 9780521640893
• ISBN10: 052164089X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-07-31
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

In the last twenty to thirty years, a new way to understand complex systems has emerged in the natural sciences - an approach often called non-linear dynamics, dynamical systems theory, or chaos theory. This perspective has allowed scientists to trace the emergence of order from disorder and complex, higher-order forms from interactions among lower-order constituents. This is called self-organization, and is thought to be responsible for change and continuity in physical, biological, and social systems. Recently, principles of self-organizing dynamic systems have been imported into psychology, especially developmental psychology, where they have helped us reconceptualize basic processes in motor and cognitive development. Emotion, Development, and Self-Organization is the first book to apply these principles to emotional development. The contributors address fundamental issues such as the biological bases of emotion and development, relations between cognition and emotion in real time and development, personality and individual differences, interpersonal processes, and clinical implications.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	ix
Foreword	xi
Alan Fogel
Introduction: A New Approach to the Study of Emotional Development	1	(14)
Marc D. Lewis
Isabela Granic
Part One: Intrapersonal Processes
Self-Organization of Discrete Emotions, Emotion Patterns, and Emotion-Cognition Relations	15	(22)
Carroll E. Izard
Brian P. Ackerman
Kristen M. Schoff
Sarah E. Fine
Emotional Self-Organization at Three Time Scales	37	(33)
Marc D. Lewis
Emotions as Episodes of Subsystem Synchronization Driven by Nonlinear Appraisal Processes	70	(30)
Klaus R. Scherer
Surprise! Facial Expressions Can be Coordinative Motor Structures	100	(25)
Linda A. Camras
The Dynamic Construction of Emotion: Varieties in Anger	125	(30)
Michael F. Mascolo
Debra Harkins
Thomas Harakal
Part Two: Neurobiological Perspectives
The Self-Organization of the Right Brain and the Neurobiology of Emotional Development	155	(31)
Allan N. Schore
Motivation of Neural Plasticity: Neural Mechanisms in the Self-Organization of Depression	186	(23)
Kate L. Harkness
Don M. Tucker
Emotion Is Essential to All Intentional Behaviors	209	(27)
Walter J. Freeman
The Neurodynamics of Emotions: An Evolutionary-Neurodevelopmental View	236	(31)
Jaak Pankepp
Part Three: Interpersonal Processes
The Self-Organization of Parent-Child Relations: Beyond Bidirectional Models	267	(31)
Isabela Granic
Attachment and Self-Organization	298	(26)
Deborah J. Laible
Ross A. Thompson
The Dynamics of Emotion-Related Behaviors in Infancy	324	(25)
Carolina de Weerth
Paul van Geert
Theoretical and Mathematical Modeling of Marriage	349	(44)
Kimberly D. Ryan
John M. Gottman
James D. Murray
Sybil Carrere
Catherine Swanson
Commentary: The Dynamics of Emotional Development: Models, Metaphors, and Methods	373	(20)
Daniel P. Keating
Fiona K. Miller
Name Index	393	(8)
Subject Index	401