Frameworks explaining how emotional understanding, expression, and regulation capacities change across the lifespan through biological maturation, social learning, and cognitive development.
Example: The progression from infant's basic emotional expressions to adolescent's complex emotional understanding and adult's sophisticated emotion regulation strategies.
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