Approaches to Emotions

Abstract

In this chapter, I review major approaches to the study of emotion. These include the biological, cognitive, cultural, functional, dimensional, and dynamical approaches. First, I indicate the integrated and intercoordinated nature of cognitions and emotions. They involve brain processes but cannot be reduced to them. In the next chapter, I present my cognitive developmental model, based on the present Neo-Piagetian model of steps in development. It integrates other major approaches to the study of emotions.