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ReviewDevelopmental psychology2025

Computational modeling approaches to emotional development.

Andrea G Stein, Seth D Pollak

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Review in Developmental psychology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Andrea G SteinDepartment of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.ORCID 0000-0002-1792-6606
Seth D PollakDepartment of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.ORCID 0000-0001-5184-9846

Funding

Emotion Processing:Risk for Psychopathology in ChildrenR01MH061285 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI SETH D POLLAK · 2001 to 2026
$12.4M
TRAINING PROGRAM IN EMOTION RESEARCHT32MH018931 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI Richard J Davidson · 1989 to 2026
$11.6M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH061285NIMH NIH HHS T32 MH018931
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Computational models of development have the potential to address a key challenge in emotional development research: investigating not only what changes across development but also how these changes come about. Drawing on connectionist and Bayesian methods, this review considers how computational modeling could augment the processes of theorizing and behavioral research to investigate causal processes underlying emotional development. As an illustrative example, we consider how different modeling approaches could help researchers evaluate different ideas about how children come to reason about others' emotions in increasingly sophisticated ways across development. This example is just a starting point; we propose that computational modeling could be an invaluable tool for exploring a variety of yet unresolved "how" questions in emotional development. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

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Child DevelopmentComputer SimulationEmotionsModels, PsychologicalBayes TheoremChildHumans

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PMID39325390
PMCPMC11932791

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