In this article, I outline a relational-developmental conception of emotion that situates emotional activity within a broader conception of persons as holistic, relational beings. In this model, emotions consist of felt forms of engagement with the world. As felt aspects of ongoing action, uninhibited emotional experiences are not private states that are inaccessible to other people; instead, they are revealed directly through their bodily expressions. As multicomponent processes, emotional experiences exhibit both continuity and dramatic change in development. Building on these ideas, I describe an intersubjective methodology for studying developmental changes in the structure of emotional experience. I illustrate the approach with an analysis of developmental changes in the structure of anger from birth to adulthood.

在本文中，我概述了一种情感的关系发展概念，该情感概念将情感活动置于更广泛的整体人际关系人概念中。在这种模型中，情感包括与世界互动的感觉形式。正如正在进行的行动所感觉到的那样，无拘无束的情感体验并不是别人无法进入的私人国家；相反，它们是通过身体表情直接显示出来的。作为多部分过程，情感体验既表现出连续性，又表现出戏剧性的变化。在这些思想的基础上，我描述了一种主体间的方法论，用于研究情感体验结构的发展变化。我通过分析从出生到成年的愤怒结构的发展变化来说明这种方法。