What is the opinion of experts on infant socioemotional development, such as Jerome Kagan, on an infant’s capacity to display emotions like guilt, pride, despair, shame, empathy, and jealousy in the first year?
Cultural differences in temperament prevent Asian infants from experiencing such emotions in the first year.
The structural immaturity of the infant brain makes it unlikely that such emotions can be experienced in the first year.
The excitability of the amygdala plays an important role in the development of such emotions.
Infants characterized by negative affectivity are more prone to experience such emotions in the first year.
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