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Infant Emotional Expression

Infant Emotional Expression
Expression of Happiness and Smile Types

The purpose of this paper is to describe infant expression of happiness and to inform findings of research relating to smile types in infants as well as to inform about potential relationships between smile types, play type and parent gender.
In a professional book, Laura E. Berk (2002) describes how infants display emotions and how caregivers respond to them. According to Berk, research has been done to find out how infants and toddlers communicate their emotions and how they interpret the emotions of others. The research provided that emotions play an important role in the organization of the developments that Erik Erikson thought to be important; relationship with caregivers, exploration of the environment, and discovery of the self.
Because infants are not capable of describing what is it they are feeling, it is difficult to determine what it is they are experiencing. Although this......


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Approximate Pages: 9 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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