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Development of Infants' Preferential Looking toward Native Language Speakers across Distinct Social Contexts
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Marc Colomer; Hyesung Grace Hwang; Nicole Burke; Amanda Woodward – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Presenting pictures of faces side by side is a common paradigm to assess infants' attentional biases according to social categories, such as gender, race, and language. However, seeing static faces does not represent infants' typical experience of the social world, which involves people in motion and performing actions. Here, we assessed infants'…
Descriptors: Infant Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Native Language, Second Language Learning
You Get What You Get and You Don't Throw a Fit!: Emotion Socialization and Child Physiology Jointly Predict Early Prosocial Development
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Scrimgeour, Meghan B.; Davis, Elizabeth L.; Buss, Kristin A. – Developmental Psychology, 2016
Prosocial behavior in early childhood is a precursor to later adaptive social functioning. This investigation leveraged mother-reported, physiological, and observational data to examine children's prosocial development from age 2 to age 4 (N = 125). Maternal emotion socialization (ES) strategies and children's parasympathetic regulation have each…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Prosocial Behavior, Psychological Patterns
On the Motivational Bases for Attachment Behavior.
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Jones, Susan Scanlon – Developmental Psychology, 1985
Tested two models of the relationship between a hypothetical attachment mechanism and an incompatible motivation (a tendency to explore) by pitting two levels of attachment motivation against two levels of exploratory motivation among 15- to 18-month-old infants, alternating freely between play with novel toys at one end of the room and visits…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Attention Control, Behavior Patterns, Exploratory Behavior