Toward an Expanded Model of Emotion Socialization: New People, New Pathways

are not so important, or that it is more important to help others than to feel good, or that they are willing to forgo social effectiveness in a group that is immoral or dangerous. Only by understanding the social contract and how well it has been honored, only by understanding the person's specific needs, and their fit to society, can we go beyond studying emotional interaction and really understand an individual' s emotional socialization. In the meantime, the comprehensive and careful work by Eisenberg et al. provides an important foundation for understanding the hygienic models of emotional socialization presently represented in the literature.