Emotion understanding goes beyond recognizing emotional displays-it also involves reasoning about how people's emotions are affected by their subjective evaluations of what they experienced. Inspired by work in adults on cognitive appraisal theories of emotion, we propose a framework that can guide systematic investigations of how an adult-like, sophisticated understanding of emotion develops from infancy to adulthood. We integrate basic concepts of appraisal theories with developmental theories of emotion understanding and suggest that over development, young children construct an intuitive, theory-like understanding of other people's emotions that is structurally similar to appraisal theories. That is, children are increasingly able to evaluate other people's situations from those people's perspectives along various appraisal dimensions and use such third-person appraisals to understand those people's emotional responses to events. This "third-person-appraisal" framework can not only incorporate existing empirical findings but can also identify gaps in the literature, providing a guiding framework for systematically investigating the development of emotion understanding. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

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作为第三人称评价的情感理解：评价理论与情感发展理论的结合。


情绪理解不仅仅是识别情绪表现，它还涉及推理人们对自己经历的主观评价如何影响他们的情绪。受到成人情绪认知评估理论研究的启发，我们提出了一个框架，可以指导系统研究如何从婴儿期到成年期对成人般的、复杂的情绪理解进行发展。我们将评价理论的基本概念与情感理解的发展理论相结合，并认为，在过度发展的过程中，幼儿对他人的情感构建了一种直观的、类似理论的理解，这种理解在结构上与评价理论相似。也就是说，孩子们越来越能够从他人的角度、不同的评价维度来评价他人的处境，并利用这种第三人称评价来理解他人对事件的情绪反应。这种“第三人称评估”框架不仅可以纳入现有的实证研究结果，还可以识别文献中的空白，为系统地研究情绪理解的发展提供指导框架。 （PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2024 APA，保留所有权利）。