Everyday life is defined by goal states that are continuously reprioritized based on available,
often affective information. To pursue these goals, individuals need to process and maintain …

This chapter will address four main questions by conducting a review of the last 40 years of
research on children's understanding of emotions:(1) How can we define and measure …

This study aims at investigating the affective and cognitive components of empathy in
relation to both emotion comprehension and prosocial/hostile behaviors in preschoolers. A …

This study examined the predictive link between enhanced parental emotion-related
socialization behaviors (ERSBs) and children's emotional understanding. Parental ERSBs …

The current study investigated the impact of cognitive flexibility on the development of
emotion understanding using a longitudinal tracking study. A total of 98 children aged 4 and …

The study examined how executive function (EF) training could improve children's emotional
competence (EC). Children (N= 55; M age= 50.64 months) were assigned into two groups …

Abstract Background The association between Executive Function (EF) and Theory of Mind
(ToM) in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has been mainly investigated using false belief …

There is broad consensus in the literature that affect diffuses through social networks (such
that a person may “acquire” or “catch” an affective state from his or her social contacts). It is …

This article examines whether there are gender differences in understanding the emotions
evaluated by the Test of Emotion Comprehension (TEC). The TEC provides a global index of …

Theory of mind has been perhaps the most heavily researched topic in developmental
psychology for close to 30 years. Most research, as well as most secondary accounts, has …