Old–new answers and new-old questions for personality and emotion: a matter of complexity

Haviland-Jones, Jeannette; Boulifard, David A.; Magai, Carol

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“…Once established, the fractal patterns tend to organize new sensory information to form a "growing" system that Commentary/Lewis: Bridging emotion theory and neurobiology through dynamic systems modeling BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES (2005) 28:2 is subject to phase shifts. This newer work on individual development of emotion systems is related to the model described above (Haviland & Walker-Andrews 1992) and a more mathematical visualization of emotion patterns emerging from small and potentially chaotic events -dependent also on initial neurological conditions (Haviland-Jones et al 2001).…”

Section: Dynamic Brain Systems In Quest For Emotional Homeostasismentioning

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Bridging emotion theory and neurobiology through dynamic systems modeling

2005

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Efforts to bridge emotion theory with neurobiology can be facilitated by dynamic systems (DS) modeling. DS principles stipulate higher-order wholes emerging from lower-order constituents through bidirectional causal processes – offering a common language for psychological and neurobiological models. After identifying some limitations of mainstream emotion theory, I apply DS principles to emotion–cognition relations. I then present a psychological model based on this reconceptualization, identifying trigger, self-amplification, and self-stabilization phases of emotion-appraisal states, leading to consolidating traits. The article goes on to describe neural structures and functions involved in appraisal and emotion, as well as DS mechanisms of integration by which they interact. These mechanisms include nested feedback interactions, global effects of neuromodulation, vertical integration, action-monitoring, and synaptic plasticity, and they are modeled in terms of both functional integration and temporal synchronization. I end by elaborating the psychological model of emotion–appraisal states with reference to neural processes.

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Bridging emotion theory and neurobiology through dynamic systems modeling

2005

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“…The field of emotion research has made significant advances in considering the role of emotions in constructing the uniqueness of individuals and relationships [Fogel, 2001;Haviland-Jones, Boulifard & Magai, 2001;Stern, 1985], in appreciating the interactional contexts in which individuals' emotional lives are lived [e.g., Dunn, 1988Dunn, , 1995, and in developing approaches such as dynamic systems perspectives [Camras, 1992;Fogel et al, 1997;Lewis, 1995;Lewis & Granic, 2000] which have the potential to model diverse developmental pathways across the emotional lives of individuals.…”

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’[A]s if She Defied the World in her Joyousness’: Rereading Darwin on Emotion and Emotional Development

Conrad¹

2004

Human Development

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Darwin’s ideas about emotion are known from his published scientific writings [e.g., Darwin, 1872/1998, 1877], which focus primarily on the evolutionary origins of emotional expressions. The present paper offers an analysis of a personal document – Darwin’s memorial of his daughter Annie, who died at age 10 [Darwin, 1989] – which reveals additional elements of Darwin’s view of emotion. Analysis of the text of the memorial indicates that Darwin did not employ rhetorical strategies conveying objectivity as outlined by Gergen [1994]. Darwin’s rhetorical decision to locate himself in the memorial as a writer and observer in relation to his daughter Annie allowed him to emphasize social functions of emotion and to delineate an implicitly relational perspective on emotion. The memorial demonstrates the value of considering the child in social encounters as the unit of analysis, showing that emotion is accorded meaning in relational contexts, integrating multiple expressive channels in emotional action, and accounting for ways that emotion helps convey the individuality of a child in her social world. Darwin’s style in the text of the memorial enabled a perspective of embodied participation that permits finely detailed observation, yet locates the observer’s point of view, and represents the relational complexity of observations even when the observer himself is involved.

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Dynamical systems approaches to emotional development

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Witherington

2005

Developmental Review

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Old–new answers and new-old questions for personality and emotion: a matter of complexity

Cited by 21 publications

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Bridging emotion theory and neurobiology through dynamic systems modeling

Bridging emotion theory and neurobiology through dynamic systems modeling

’[A]s if She Defied the World in her Joyousness’: Rereading Darwin on Emotion and Emotional Development

Dynamical systems approaches to emotional development

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