Emotion cognition interaction in personality development: A discrete emotions, functionalist analysis
- 1 March 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in British Journal of Social Psychology
- Vol. 27 (1), 91-112
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8309.1988.tb00807.x
Abstract
In this paper we take a discrete emotions approach to personality development. We suggest that individual differences in affective organization, acquired during the course of development, result in affect-specific biases in expressive patterns and idiosyncratic perceptual organizations. These affective biases, which have a pervasive influence on a wide domain of individual and interpersonal behaviours, contribute to psychological continuities that we identify as emotional traits. An array of data in support of this proposition is detailed. We propose a developmental model of how such affective organizations may be established initially, and the mechanisms by which they become consolidated over time. A final section discusses broader implications for developmental theory.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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