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Getting a Feel for Emotions

Emotional development attracts cross-cultural explorations

Studies of infants and children attempt to separate universal features of emotion from those that represent cultural experiences.

 

References:

Brothers, L. 1997. Friday’s Footprint: How Society Shapes the Human Mind. New York: Oxford University Press.

Camras, L.A., et al. 1998. Production of emotional facial expressions in European American, Japanese, and Chinese infants. Developmental Psychology 34(July):616.

Cole, P.M., and B.L. Tamang. 1998. Nepali children’s ideas about emotional displays in hypothetical challenges. Developmental Psychology 34(July):640.

Darwin, C. 1998. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. New York: Oxford University Press.

Kisilevsky, B.S., et al. 1998. The still-face effect in Chinese and Canadian 3- to 6-month-old infants. Developmental Psychology 34(July):629.

Saarni, C. 1998. Issues of cultural meaningfulness in emotional development. Developmental Psychology 34(July):647.

 

Further Readings:

Bower, B. 1998. Hooked on a feeling. Science News 153(June 13):383.

Lewis, M., D. Ramsay, and K. Kawakami. 1993. Differences between Japanese infants and Caucasian-American infants in behavioral and cortisol response to inoculation. Child Development 64:1722.

 

Sources:

Linda A. Camras
DePaul University
Department of Psychology
2219 North Kenmore Avenue
Chicago, IL 60614

Pamela M. Cole
Pennsylvania State University
Department of Psychology
417 Bruce V. Moore Building
University Park, PA 16802-3104

Paul Ekman
University of California, San Francisco
School of Medicine
401 Parnassus Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94143-0984

Barbara S. Kisilevsky
Queen’s University
School of Nursing
90 Barrie Street
Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6
Canada

Carolyn Saarni
Sonoma State University
Department of Counseling
Rohnert Park, CA 94928

Babu Lal Tamang
Sanman Prabhi School
Tekanpur
Mechchhe 6
Nepal

From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 12, September 19, 1998, p. 190.
Copyright Ó 1998 by Science Service.

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