This comment addresses opportunities for understanding the social functions of emotion by taking a developmental perspective. I agree that understanding emotions and their development will meaningfully illuminate understanding of prosociality in everyday life. Taking Vaish and Hepach’s (2020) approach one step further, I suggest that rather than using the framing of questions about prosociality from the adult literature to guide questions about the development of social emotions in children, in the future, developmental researchers consider the social milieu in which emotions evolved and in which children’s emotions may develop, to guide their questions. This may feed forward to a richer understanding of cooperation and reciprocity in the literature regarding adult strangers.

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评论：通过情感发展和维持高质量的关系

该评论通过发展的观点提出了理解情感的社会功能的机会。我同意理解情绪及其发展将在日常生活中有意义地阐明对社会关系的理解。我建议将Vaish和Hepach（2020）的方法再进一步一步，我建议，与其使用成人文学中有关社会亲和力的问题框架来指导有关儿童社交情绪发展的问题，不如将来，发展性研究人员应考虑社会环境在其中发展出情感并在其中发展出孩子的情感，以指导他们的问题。这可能有助于在关于成年陌生人的文献中加深对合作与互惠的理解。