Presents four principles which are used within cultures for the organization and elaboration of emotional experience. Proposes these principles as a way to expand the Miller and Sperry (Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1987) descriptive ethnographic data on the emotional development of three young children in a south Baltimore community. (NH)

Identifies conceptual and methodological strengths of Hawley and Little's article and commends the pedagogical value of the approach taken. Notes that questions still unanswered concern the validity of adult caregiver perceptions of social dominance, the relationship between competition hierarchies and hierarchies based on directed agonism, and…

Discussed are adults' egocentric attitudes about children, particularly toddlers, and ways in which such attitudes can creat unnecessary stress in the caregiver and toddler. Emphasis is given to: (1) hostile myths about toddlers that obscure reality and muddy relationships; (2) misunderstandings about ways in which toddlers think; (3) young…