Crying infants with pleading looks at their mothers, tantrum-throwing two-year-olds in front of supermarket checkouts, aggressive schoolchildren – and then? The development of emotions and their regulation cannot be confined to just a few years of life. Likewise, it cannot be viewed in isolation from the sociocultural context. This book addresses the central questions of emotional development: What exactly develops when we talk about emotional development? Is there a social genesis of emotional processes? What significance do early social interactions between child and caregiver have? Emotions develop from birth through to adulthood. For the first time, a book explains developmental theories of emotions across the lifespan. If you are interested in the development of emotions and their regulation and want to understand why one should not...