Emotion Development from an Experimental and Individual Differences Lens

Pérez‐Edgar, Koraly; Hastings, Paul D.

doi:10.1002/9781119170174.epcn409

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“…Large-scale longitudinal studies are needed to understand the emergence of maladaptive threat-related attention, and how it may interact with socioemotional functioning to cast risks for the development of psychopathology (Field & Lester, 2010;Morales et al, 2016). Cross-sectional studies are equally indispensable, as they could reveal more comprehensive and fine-grained attention bias patterns (Pérez-Edgar & Hastings, 2018).…”

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“…While ABMT research indicates that threat-related attention bias can influence anxiety levels, relative to placebo training (e.g. Britton, Dellarco, & Evans, 2017;Liu, Taber-Thomas, Fu, & Pérez-Edgar, 2018), it does not provide all of the necessary support for the causal relation -whether threat-related attention bias always impacts the emergence of anxiety problems (Pérez-Edgar & Hastings, 2018). Furthermore, the generated effect sizes in the child literature for threat-related attention bias and ABMT are smaller, and the patterns of threatrelated attention bias associated with anxiety are more mixed (Dudeney, Sharpe, & Hunt, 2015;Roy, Dennis, & Warner, 2015), relative to the adult literature.…”

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Threat-related attention bias in socioemotional development: A critical review and methodological considerations

Pérez‐Edgar

2019

Developmental Review

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Cross-sectional evidence suggests that attention bias to threat is linked to anxiety disorders and anxiety vulnerability in both children and adults. However, there is a lack of developmental evidence regarding the causal mechanisms through which attention bias to threat might convey risks for socioemotional problems, such as anxiety. Gaining insights into this question demands longitudinal research to track the complex interplay between threat-related attention and socioemotional functioning. Developing and implementing reliable and valid assessments tools is essential to this line of work. This review presents theoretical accounts and empirical evidence from behavioral, eye-tracking, and neural assessments of attention to discuss our current understanding of the development of normative threat-related attention in infancy, as well as maladaptive threat-related attention patterns that may be associated with the development of anxiety. This review highlights the importance of measuring threat-related attention using multiple attention paradigms at multiple levels of analysis. In order to understand if and how threat-related attention bias in real-life, social interactive contexts can predict socioemotional development outcomes, this review proposes that future research cannot solely rely on screen-based paradigms but needs to extend the assessment of threat-related attention to naturalistic settings. Mobile eyetracking technology provides an effective tool for capturing threat-related attention processes in vivo as children navigate fear-eliciting environments and may help us uncover more proximal biopsycho-behavioral markers of anxiety.

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Section: The Impact Of Normative Attention Bias On Socioemotional Development In Infancymentioning

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Threat-related attention bias in socioemotional development: A critical review and methodological considerations

Pérez‐Edgar

2019

Developmental Review

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“…However, this is a mechanistic argument supporting the potential for causality. While experimental designs can support causality, it remains an assumption that this is the pathway through which biased attention develops or that this is the mechanism at play in the natural development of anxiety (Pérez-Edgar & Hastings, 2018). The degree to which biased attention to threat represents a downstream result of ongoing anxiety or an early-emerging predisposing factor implicated in the risk for anxiety remains unclear.…”

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Biased attention to threat and anxiety: On taking a developmental approach

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Journal of Experimental Psychopathology

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Several researchers have proposed a causal relation between biased attention to threat and the development and maintenance of anxiety disorders in both children and adults. However, despite the widely documented correlation between attention bias to threat and anxiety, developmental research in this domain is limited. In this review, we highlight the importance of taking a developmental approach to studying attention biases to threat and anxiety. First, we discuss how recent developmental work on attention to threat fits into existing theoretical frameworks for the development of anxiety and how attention biases might interact with other risk factors across development. Then we review the developmental literature on attention bias to threat and anxiety and describe how classic methodologies can be modified to study attention biases in even the youngest infants. Finally, we discuss limitations and future directions in this domain, emphasizing the need for future longitudinal research beginning in early infancy that tracks concurrent developments in both biased attention and anxiety. Altogether, we hope that by highlighting the importance of development in the study of attention bias to threat and anxiety, we can provide a road map for how researchers might implement developmental approaches to studying a potential core mechanism in anxiety.

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“…Positive reactivity in infants on the other hand, may be the result of a high threshold of arousal, which likely affords infants the ease and comfort to navigate new social situations because they do not perceive such situations as threatening. Typically, Western personality preferences have led us to embrace the exuberant child, while simultaneously believing that fearfulness is a cause for concern (Pérez-Edgar & Hastings, 2018). Although negative reactivity has more generally been associated with negative outcomes, such as anxiety (Chronis-Tuscano et al, 2009;McDermott et al, 2009), positive reactivity can also lead to maladaptive outcomes if unregulated (see below).…”

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Personality development in the context of individual traits and parenting dynamics

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Pérez‐Edgar

2019

New Ideas in Psychology

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Our conceptualization of adult personality and childhood temperament can be closely aligned in that they both reflect endogenous, likely constitutional dispositions. Empirical studies of temperament have focused on measuring systematic differences in emotional reactions, motor responses, and physiological states that we believe may contribute to the underlying biological components of personality. Although this work has provided some insight into the early origins of personality, we still lack a cohesive developmental account of how personality profiles emerge from infancy into adulthood. We believe the moderating impact of context could shed some light on this complex trajectory. We begin this article reviewing how researchers conceptualize personality today, particularly traits that emerge from the Five Factor Theory (FFT) of personality. From the temperament literature, we review variation in temperamental reactivity and regulation as potential underlying forces of personality development. Finally, we integrate parenting as a developmental context, reviewing empirical findings that highlight its important role in moderating continuity and change from temperament to personality traits.

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Emotion Development from an Experimental and Individual Differences Lens

Cited by 11 publications

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Threat-related attention bias in socioemotional development: A critical review and methodological considerations

Threat-related attention bias in socioemotional development: A critical review and methodological considerations

Biased attention to threat and anxiety: On taking a developmental approach

Personality development in the context of individual traits and parenting dynamics

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