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Introduction: Emotional Development, Past, and Present

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In the Introduction to the volume, we present a brief history of emotion research and how research on emotional development differentiates itself from the broader emotion literature.

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LoBue, V., Pérez-Edgar, K., Buss, K.A. (2019). Introduction: Emotional Development, Past, and Present. In: LoBue, V., Pérez-Edgar, K., Buss, K.A. (eds) Handbook of Emotional Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17332-6_1

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