How Anger Develops In Infancy

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How Anger Develops in Infancy We human use language to communicate with each others, but sometimes we do use facial expression to interact with others without talking. Do you know that we started using facial expressions to explore the world as newborns? For infants, they have few specific ways to express their feelings, such as through voices, facial expressions and actions. There are seven universal facial expressions, including anger, fear, surprise, sadness, joy, interest and disgust. Anger is essential for human to be able to survive, helping our internal regulation and having social communicative functions. We can look at anger in three different perspectives, such as, physiologically, it helps the body to direct activities and maintain focuses. Psychologically, it allows human to be able to protect themselves and act aggressively. At last, as a function of social communication, anger brings out many different kind of messages, including predicable consequences, draw affective and reaction response to others. Hence, in this paper I am going to focus on anger develops in infancy. Do newborns know what anger is in the first hour of their life? If they do, then are they able to express their anger and notice others’ anger toward themselves? Thus, how do they show others that they are angry? We always perceive infants get angry through their voices, facial expression and action. For instance, when infants screaming, crying or kicking, then we might guess that they are angry that they are not meeting their goals. Conversely, can infants identify others’ anger through voices, facial expressions and actions? For instance, a mother uses loud and strong tones to talk to her baby in certain situations and the baby responses the mother with crying. Moreover, if infants can really express and recognize anger from others, then how would they express themselves to
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