ABSTRACT
The focus of this chapter is on the joint roles of emotional and cognitive functioning in the child's social development. In particular it deals with the development of the child's ways of coping with the experience of disequilibrium generated by situations of interpersonal conflict with peers. We suggest that in interpersonal situations, disequilibrium may be experienced both internally and interpersonally in feeling and cognition. We also suggest that developmental maturity involves the ability to differentiate and coordinate the disequilibrium in feeling and cognition, both within the self and between the self and the other.
