Integrating Emotions and Cognition Throughout the Lifespan, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015

This book synthesizes the literature on emotional development and cognition across the lifespan. The book proposes a core language by which to describe positive and problematic developmental changes by recourse to a parsimonious set of core principles, such as elevations or declines in tension thresholds and their relation to the waxing and waning of the cognitive system over the life course. It integrates, similarly, the lifelong consequences of the positive or damaging aspects of the social milieu in fostering increases in tension thresholds with their advanced capacity for maintaining equilibrium and warding off stress versus a lowering of tension thresholds with disturbances of equilibrium maintenance and heightened susceptibility to stress and deregulation.

Chapter 1. Preface.- Chapter 2. Introduction.- Chapter 3. Emotions and Cognition: From Myth and Philosophy to Modern Psychology and Neurobiology.- Chapter 4. Equilibrium and Disequilibrium in Development.- Chapter 5. Emotions in Infancy.- Chapter 6. Emotions in Childhood.- Chapter 7. Adolescence to Early Adulthood.- Chapter 8. Middle Adulthood.- Chapter 9. Aging.- Chapter 10. Postscript.

Gisela Labouvie-Vief received her Ph.D.in Life/Span Developmental Psychology from West Virginia University in 1972. In 1976, she joined the faculty of Psychology at Wayne State University, where she held the title of Distinguished Professor of Psychology until she received a call from the University of Geneva in 2005. Dr. Labouvie-Vief’s work has been acknowledged by a series of Awards and Distinctions, including the APA, Division 20, Distinguished Research Achievement Award in 2001, the 2006 Creative Longevity and Wisdom Outstanding Researcher Award, Fielding Graduate University, and Distinguished Faculty Awards from Wayne State University in 2009. She has held visiting Professor positions at the University of Chicago (1992), Harvard University (1981-1983), the University of California at Berkeley (1999), and the Max Planck Institute Berlin (2002).

Integrates coverage of behavioral and neural processes related to emotional development across the lifespan Proposes a core language to clarify concepts and to outline continuities from early to later stages of life Examines the lifelong consequences of both the positive and damaging aspects of the social milieu Addresses childhood as a particularly important time in which emotion regulation skills are developed