ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the representation of emotional experience and the way in which emotion and thought are interrelated. We present a model that specifies the type of knowledge acquired about emotion, the way in which this knowledge is organized, and how it is used to regulate behavior. We describe the thinking that occurs during emotion episodes and the way in which thought and emotion influence each other. We also illustrate how emotional behavior is perceived and understood by both children and adults, and we show how differences in values and beliefs lead to variation in emoti~nal responses. As such we "address issues related to both learning and development.
