This handbook offers an excellent insight into the complexity of research on emotional development. The editors have succeeded in bringing together renowned scholars from a wide range of disciplines, whose contributions reflect the diversity of aspects that interact in emotional development processes. The handbook captivates through the underlying understanding of emotions as multifaceted and highly dynamic processes over time and the importance given to different temporal dimensions in this context.
Daniel Dukes worked in special education before returning to academia. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Fribourg and is Co-General Editor of the Studies of Emotion and Social Interaction series at Cambridge University Press. His research mainly focuses on socio-emotional development and processes, including affective social learning.
Andrea C. Samson is Associate Professor in psychology at Unidistance, Switzerland and holds a Swiss National Science Foundation-funded professorship at the Institute of Special Education, University of Fribourg. She is the director of the chEERS Lab, a team of researchers interested in socio-emotional processes in developmental disorders and intellectual disabilities.
Eric A. Walle is an Associate Professor of Psychological Sciences at the University of California, Merced. He is the Director of the Interpersonal Development Lab and conducts research examining emotion, socio-emotional development, and developmental transitions. He also serves on the Executive Board of the International Society for Research on Emotion.