Expressions as Signs and Their Significance for Emotional Development

Autor/inn/en	Holodynski, Manfred; Seeger, Dorothee
Titel	Expressions as Signs and Their Significance for Emotional Development
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 55 (2019) 9, S.1812-1829 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Holodynski, Manfred)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/dev0000698
Schlagwörter	Emotional Development; Affective Behavior; Psychological Patterns; Neonates; Adults; Semiotics; Theories; Toddlers; Preschool Children; Age Differences; Cultural Influences; Self Control; Developmental Stages + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gefühlsbildung; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Neugeborenes Kind; Semiotik; Theory; Theorie; Infant; Infants; Toddler; Kleinkind; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Selbstbeherrschung
Abstract	For research on emotional development, defining emotions as psychological systems of appraisals, expressions, body reactions, and subjective feelings in all phases of ontogenesis raises tricky methodological issues. How can we measure single emotions when appraisals and feelings cannot be assessed from outside, when expressions do not seem to be tied unequivocally to single emotions, and feelings are sometimes decoupled from perceivable expressions? Furthermore, how does a restricted set of neonate emotions differentiate into a culturally modified set of adult emotions? This article presents an innovative answer to these issues by applying Vygotsky's culture-historical approach on the psychological significance of social signs to the analysis of emotion, expression, and their development. The core assumption is that humans learn to use emotional expressions as communicative signs that appeal to another person to regulate their interaction through emotions and as psychological signs that appeal to the self to regulate the self's actions through emotions. This twofold function assigns a significant mediating role to expression for not only culture-historical and ontogenetic differentiation but also a growing awareness, self-regulation, and mental processing of emotions. The article describes three stages of emotional development supported by empirical evidence on how a biologically given set of neonate emotions are transformed into a culturally modified set of conscious, sign-mediated emotions that enables a decoupling of expression and feeling. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01