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Multiple emotions, Multiple causes Another aspect of emotional understanding is the awareness that a person can have more than one feeling at a time and can even experience conflicting feelings. Although infants show signs of experiencing conflicting feelings, such as being fascinated by a toy robot but wary or even frightened at the same time, the capacity to understand and describe mixed emotions develops slowly. As one young child responded when asked if a person could feel mixed emotions (Harter & Buddin, 1987, p. 398): "You'd have to be two different people to have two feelings at the same time." In a study of children between the ages of 4 and 12 years, Susan Harter asked children to describe situations that would make them feel two same-valence emotions, such as happy and excited, or two opposite-valence emotions, such as happy and sad. Most 6- and 7-year-olds could describe situations that would elicit two emotions of the same valence, but only older children were able to describe situations that would make them feel two opposite-valence mixed emotions. Not until they were 10 to 12 years old were children able to conceive of opposite feelings existing simultaneously. Table 5.4 summarizes the developmental progression in children's ability to understand multiple and conflicting feelings (Harter & Buddin, 1987).