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Quinn, Paul C.; Lee, Kang; Pascalis, Olivier; Xiao, Naiqi G. – Developmental Psychology, 2020
Perceptual narrowing occurs in human infants for other-race faces. A paired-comparison task measuring infant looking time was used to investigate the hypothesis that adding emotional expressiveness to other-race faces would help infants break through narrowing and reinstate other-race face recognition. Experiment 1 demonstrated narrowing for White…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Infant Behavior, Asians, Psychological Patterns
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Ueno, Mika; Uchiyama, Ichiro; Campos, Joseph J.; Dahl, Audun; Anderson, David I. – Infancy, 2012
Most infants with more than 6 weeks of crawling experience completely avoid the deep side of a visual cliff (Campos, Bertenthal, & Kermoian, 1992; Gibson & Walk, 1960). However, some experienced crawlers do move onto the transparent surface suspended several feet above the ground. An important question is whether these "nonavoiders" lack wariness…
Descriptors: Metabolism, Twins, Infants, Infant Behavior
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Vogel, Margaret; Monesson, Alexandra; Scott, Lisa S. – Developmental Science, 2012
Early in the first year of life infants exhibit equivalent performance distinguishing among people within their own race and within other races. However, with development and experience, their face recognition skills become tuned to groups of people they interact with the most. This developmental tuning is hypothesized to be the origin of adult…
Descriptors: Race, Nonverbal Communication, Infants, Developmental Stages
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Caron, Albert J.; Caron, Rose; Roberts, Jennifer; Brooks, Rechele – Developmental Psychology, 1997
Three experiments compared infants' reactions to videos of normally responsive women varying in eye contact. Found that, relative to frontal faces, three-month olds smiled less at images averting head and eye (H&I), head alone (H), and closing eyes (ECL) but not at averting eyes (E). Five-month-olds smiled less at H&I, E, and ECL but not…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Discrimination Learning, Emotional Response