11
Individual Differences in Emotionality
This chapter written with Heather Prime
CONTENTS
Biases of Emotion in Temperament and Personality
Individual Differences in Emotion Shape How We Construe the World
Reciprocal Processes in Emotion Expression
Emotions Associated with Attachment Styles
Genetic Influences on Attachment
Internal Working Models of Attachment
The Bridge Between Attachment and Emotions
Parental Relationships in Children's Emotional Organization
Parents' Responsiveness to Children's Internal States
Parenting in the Socialization of Emotion
Intergenerational Transmission and Genetics in Parenting
Beyond Parenting: Influences of Siblings and Peers
Emotionality Over the Lifespan
Continuities in Emotionality from Childhood to Adulthood
Personality Traits and Emotionality
Can Personality and Emotionality Change?
FIGURE 11.0 A mother picks up her child after an absence. Notice the child clasping the mother and pushing away the babysitter.
A child forsaken, waking suddenly,
Whose gaze afeared on all things round doth rove
And seeth only that it cannot see
The meeting eyes of love.
George Eliot
From the first hours of life children show marked individual differences in their emotions. Early temperament contributes to what we think of as personality: ...
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