Thinking about the Past: Early Knowledge about Links between Prior Experience, Thinking, and Emotion.

Lagattuta, Kristin Hansen; Wellman, Henry M.

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Publication Date: 2001

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Thinking about the Past: Early Knowledge about Links between Prior Experience, Thinking, and Emotion.

Lagattuta, Kristin Hansen; Wellman, Henry M.

Child Development, v72 n1 p82-102 Jan-Feb 2001

Examined in 2 studies 3- to 7-year-olds and adults' connecting a person's current feelings to past experience. Found that even 3-year-olds demonstrated knowledge about connections between past events and present emotions. Children 5 years and younger revealed cogent understanding in explaining why someone who experienced a previous negative event was currently feeling sad or mad in a positive situation. (Author/KB)

Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development, Competence, Emotional Development, Emotional Experience, Knowledge Level, Life Events, Social Cognition

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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