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Developmental Psychology Lab (Iwata)
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The lab explores how children's understanding of others develops, through the words they use to talk about emotions.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring children's understanding of others through emotion words
Prof. Iwata's lab studies the developmental path through which preschool and elementary school children come to understand others, focusing on the emotion words that children say.
It investigates how putting emotions into words regulates children's relationships with those around them, in peer play at kindergarten, in discussions at elementary school, and at meals in families that include three generations.
The lab conducts observations at kindergartens and elementary schools and analyzes data on interactions among children.
In the university's faculty directory, Prof. Iwata's specialties are listed as developmental psychology and educational psychology.
Key terms
- Emotion talk
- Putting one's own or others' emotions into words, such as "fun" or "cute"
- Understanding of others
- Understanding the feelings and thoughts of the people around one. This lab studies the developmental path of this understanding
- Emotion socialization
- The process by which children learn how to handle emotions through interactions with the people around them
ResearchResearch themes
The lab aims to clarify how preschool and elementary school children develop an understanding of others, by looking at the role that children's emotion talk plays in regulating their relationships with those around them. Drawing on the perspective of emotion socialization, it seeks to capture this through the varied relationships children encounter in daily life: peers, classmates, and family.
Emotions Expressed in Peer Play
The lab studies how emotion words such as "funny," "fun," and "cute" regulate relationships with peers during peer play at kindergarten. Findings so far have shown that young children regulate peer relationships through positive emotion words and through negative emotion words used as part of play.
Emotions in Elementary School Discussions
The lab observes class discussions in elementary schools and examines how children adjust their opinions in light of their own and others' feelings. In discussions among upper-grade students, it found that objections based on the feelings of classmates or third parties served to regulate opinions in agreement.
Conversations in Three-Generation Families
The lab focuses on meals in families that include three generations and examines the role that children's emotion words play in interactions with family members. It has also published a paper on the role of family emotion socialization in response to negative emotion words from school-age children.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorMiho Iwata
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