Child Development at the Intersection of Emotion and Cognition

Susan D. Calkins, PhD, is professor of human development, family studies, and psychology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she directs the Child and Family Research Network. She conducts longitudinal research, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and the National Science Foundation on the development of biological and behavioral indicators of self-regulation across infancy, childhood, and adolescence. She is a fellow of American Psychological Association Division 7 (Developmental Psychology), a recipient of an NIMH Research Scientist Career Development Award, and an associate editor of the journal Developmental Psychology.   Martha Ann Bell, PhD, is associate professor of psychology at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg. Her research specialization is developmental cognitive neuroscience, and she examines developmental change in frontal lobe functioning using both behavioral and electrophysiological methods. Her current work, funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, focuses on individual differences in the development of executive function and emotion regulation across infancy and early childhood. Dr. Bell is a fellow of American Psychological Association Division 7 (Developmental Psychology) and the editor of the journal Infancy.  

Contributors

Foreword 
—Michael I. Posner



Introduction: Putting the Domains of Development Into Perspective 
—Susan D. Calkins and Martha Ann Bell

I. Basic Developmental Processes



An Optimal Balance: The Integration of Emotion and Cognition in Context 
—Clancy Blair and Tracy Dennis
Emotion Regulation and Executive Functioning in Early Development: Integrated Mechanisms of Control Supporting Adaptive Functioning 
—Susan D. Calkins and Stuart Marcovitch
The Role of Language in the Development of Emotion Regulation 
—Pamela M. Cole, Laura Marie Armstrong, and Caroline K. Pemberton
Feeling and Understanding Through the Prism of Relationships 
—Ross A. Thompson
Hot Executive Function: Emotion and the Development of Cognitive Control 
—Phillip David Zelazo, Li Qu, and Amanda C. Kesek

II. Neuroscientific and Genetic Contributions



Psychobiological Mechanisms of Cognition–Emotion Integration in Early Development 
—Martha Ann Bell, Denise R. Greene, and Christy D. Wolfe
Cognition and Emotion: A Behavioral Genetic Perspective 
—Kirby Deater-Deckard and Paula Y. Mullineaux
Understanding the Social World: A Developmental Neuroscience Approach 
—Mark H. Johnson
Desire, Dopamine, and Conceptual Development 
—Marc D. Lewis

III. Implications for Clinical and Educational Research



Self-Regulation and Academic Achievement in the Transition to School 
—Frederick J. Morrison, Claire Cameron Ponitz, and Megan M. McClelland
Intersection of Emotion and Cognition in Developmental Psychopathology 
—Joel T. Nigg, Michelle M. Martel, Molly Nikolas, and B. J. Casey

Afterword: Integrating Emotion and Cognition in Developmental Research 
—Martha Ann Bell and Susan D. Calkins

Index

About the Editors