The school participants will be able to reflect upon the different
theories concerning the development of emotion, and to investigate related themes
like emotion regulation, affective
social learning, the role of imagination, play and humor in our affective education, the development of
social and moral emotions, the role of emotional
learning in the shaping of our evaluative outlook, and psychopathologies of emotion development.
Secondly, according to
social learning theory (Bandura 1977), adolescents» relationships with parents might affect other
social relationships
like friendships through a process of modeling and imitation.