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Graham, Susan A.; Stock, Hayli; Henderson, Annette M. E. – Infancy, 2006
We assessed 19-month-olds' appreciation of the conventional nature of object labels versus desires. Infants played a finding game with an experimenter who stated her intention to find the referent of a novel word (word group), to find an object she wanted (desire group), or simply to look in a box (control group). A 2nd experimenter then…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Infants, Infant Behavior, Child Development
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Soussignan, Robert; Nadel, Jacqueline; Canet, Pierre; Gerardin, Priscille – Infancy, 2006
This study was aimed at sorting out conflicting results in the literature concerning 2-month-olds' sensitivity to interpersonal contingency, and investigated the potential role of infants' positive emotion in contingency detection. Infants were randomly assigned to an experimental group (EG) that was presented an uninterrupted live-replay-live…
Descriptors: Infants, Emotional Response, Nonverbal Communication, Mothers