Frameworks for Understanding Emotions and Their Development: Functionalist and Dynamic Systems Approaches

Emotion

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 628-637

  Witherington, David C ^a   Crichton, Jennifer A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

dynamic systems approach; emotion theory; functionalist approach

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; DYNAMICS; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN RELATION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION;

AFFECT; EXPRESSED EMOTION; HUMANS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

EID: 34548856525     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.7.3.628     Document Type: Article

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