ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the research on children's development awareness and experiences of collective emotions combines several existing established topics, including studies of the development of group or collective identity, collective self-esteem and self-conscious emotions. Collective pride provides fertile ground to articulate, test and develop new theories to account for the developmental prerequisites of collective emotions in individuals that are variously traced to collective intentionality, identification processes, maturation, cognitive development and a range of formal instructional and informal life experiences. Sullivan outlines any occurrence of the emotion of collective pride, which is taken to include instances of happiness and occasions when the group is celebrated or widely shared goals are achieved, needs to be considered in its social and cultural context. Development of the capacity or ability to experience mostly positive collective emotions in a variety of practices and to identify occasions of particular collective emotion in one's own group is an important area of research in its own right.
