Historically, research characterizing the development of emotion recognition has focused on
identifying specific skills and the age periods, or milestones, at which these abilities emerge …

Children's ability to accurately recognize the external emotional signals produced by those
around them represents a milestone in their socioemotional development and is associated …

The gut microbiome appears to play an important role in human health and disease.
However, only little is known about how variability in the gut microbiome contributes to …

An ongoing debate in affective science concerns whether certain discrete,“basic” emotions
have evolutionarily based signals (facial expressions) that are easily, universally, and …

Altruistic behavior is considered a key feature of the human cooperative makeup, with deep
ontogenetic roots. The tendency to engage in altruistic behavior varies between individuals …

Highlights•Concern for others guides prosocial behavior from early in development.•Caring
continuum exists, which underpins variability in infant prosocial action.•Novel brain …

Already as infants humans are more fearful than our closest living primate relatives, the
chimpanzees. Yet heightened fearfulness is mostly considered maladaptive, as it is thought …

Current clinical literature and supporting animal literature have shown that repeated and
profound early-life adversity, especially when experienced within the caregiver–infant dyad …

Research investigating the early development of emotional processing has focused mainly
on infants' perception of static facial emotional expressions, likely restricting the amount and …

Accurate perception of emotional (facial) expressions is an essential social skill. It is
currently debated whether emotion categorization in infancy emerges in a “broad-to-narrow” …