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The paper discusses how developmental psychology involves a number of sub-disciplines, one of which is emotional childhood development. The paper relates that the emotional development of infants, children and adolescents has drawn a number of theories from psychologists over the decades, from Freud, to Erickson to modern researchers leap-frogging off the work of these early pioneers. However, the paper posits that as today's society becomes increasing globalized, the means through which children develop emotions and communicate are changing significantly. As a result, the field of developmental psychology expands accordingly. The present paper examines traditional schools of thought on childhood emotional development, recent research and probable future directions.

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"Developmental psychology involves a number of sub-disciplines, one of which is emotional childhood development. The emotional development of infants, children and adolescents has drawn a number of theories from psychologists over the decades, from Freud, to Erickson to modern researchers leap-frogging off the work of these early pioneers. However, as today's society becomes increasing globalized, the means through which children develop emotions and communicate are changing significantly. As a result, the field of developmental psychology expands accordingly."

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