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Stengelin, Roman; Ball, Rabea; Maurits, Luke; Kanngiesser, Patricia; Haun, Daniel B. M. – Developmental Science, 2023
Researchers commonly use puppets in development science. Amongst other things, puppets are employed to reduce social hierarchies between child participants and adult experimenters akin to peer interactions. However, it remains controversial whether children treat puppets like real-world social partners in these settings. This study investigated…
Descriptors: Young Children, Puppetry, Interaction, Imitation
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Steenbeek, Henderien; van Geert, Paul – Developmental Science, 2008
Studying short-term dynamic processes and change mechanisms in interaction yields important knowledge that contributes to understanding long-term social development of children. In order to get a grip on this short-term dynamics of interaction processes, the authors made a dynamic systems model of dyadic interaction of children during one play…
Descriptors: Play, Peer Relationship, Interaction, Social Development
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Meltzoff, Andrew N. – Developmental Science, 2007
Infants represent the acts of others and their own acts in commensurate terms. They can recognize cross-modal equivalences between acts they see others perform and their own felt bodily movements. This recognition of self-other equivalences in action gives rise to interpreting others as having similar psychological states such as perceptions and…
Descriptors: Social Cognition, Infants, Cognitive Development, Social Development