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Direct linkSabine Seehagen; Christina Bartnick; Joscha Kärtner; Julia Krasko; Maike Luhmann; Nora Schaal; Silvia Schneider; Sarah Witt; Norbert Zmyj – Child Development Perspectives, 2025
The broaden-and-build theory is a prominent framework in positive psychology that considers positive emotions as essential for people to flourish. The theory does not specify the origins of positive emotions during development, although experiences in the first years of life are considered influential for long-term adjustment and well-being. In…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Child Development, Interpersonal Relationship, Sense of Belonging
Teresa Wilcox; Jacqueline Stotler Hammack; Lindsey Riera-Gomez – Child Development Perspectives, 2025
Interpersonal synchronization between infants and parents emerges early in life and serves as a critical foundation for the development of cognitive, social, and communicative abilities. Traditionally, researchers have assessed this synchrony using composite scores that capture the overall degree of reciprocal, coordinated interaction within a…
Descriptors: Infants, Parent Child Relationship, Child Development, Cognitive Processes
Plate, Samantha; Yankowitz, Lisa; Resorla, Leslie; Swanson, Meghan R.; Meera, Shoba Sreenath; Estes, Annette; Marrus, Natasha; Cola, Meredith; Petrulla, Victoria; Faggen, Aubrey; Pandey, Juhi; Paterson, Sarah; Pruett, John R., Jr.; Hazlett, Heather; Dager, Stephen; St. John, Tanya; Botteron, Kelly; Zwaigenbaum, Lonnie; Piven, Joseph; Schultz, Robert T.; Parish-Morris, Julia – Child Development, 2022
Infant vocalizations are early-emerging communicative markers shown to be atypical in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but few longitudinal, prospective studies exist. In this study, 23,850 infant vocalizations from infants at low (LR)- and high (HR)-risk for ASD (HR-ASD = 23, female = 3; HR-Neg = 35, female = 13; LR = 32, female = 10; 80% White;…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Verbal Communication, Autism
Astor, Kim; Lindskog, Marcus; Juvrud, Joshua; Wangchuk; Namgyel, Sangay Choden; Wangmo, Tshering; Tshering, Kinzang; Gredebäck, Gustaf – Developmental Psychology, 2022
We assessed whether the negative association between maternal postpartum depression (PPD) and infants' development of joint attention (gaze following) generalizes from WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) to Majority World contexts. The study was conducted in Bhutan (N = 105, M = 278 days, 52% males) but also draws from…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Mothers, Infants, Attention
Singh, Leher; Rajendra, Sarah J.; Mazuka, Reiko – Child Development Perspectives, 2022
Over the past 50 years, scientists have made amazing discoveries about the origins of human language acquisition. Central to this field of study is the process by which infants' perceptual sensitivities gradually align with native language structure, known as "perceptual narrowing." Perceptual narrowing offers a theoretical account of…
Descriptors: Infants, Cognitive Development, Child Development, Language Acquisition
Gracie, Margaret – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2022
In 'The role of play', the fifth article we are highlighting from the extensive "FORUM" archive available online, Maggie Gracie draws on material and observations she had collected during a year of study in an infant and reception class in the mid-1970s to develop ideas about the need to enable pupils to develop genuine autonomy of…
Descriptors: Play, Infant Behavior, Infants, Personal Autonomy
Dias, Cláudia Castro; Figueiredo, Bárbara – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
This paper aims to provide a systematic review of the literature on the associated factors with infant sleep-wake behaviour during the first 12 months of life, namely (1) the factors positively and negatively associated with sleep-wake behaviour and (2) the factors positively and negatively affected by sleep-wake behaviour. This systematic review…
Descriptors: Sleep, Infant Behavior, Influences, Infants
Carrow, Jacqueline N.; Vladescu, Jason C.; Reeve, Sharon A.; Kisamore, April N. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2020
There are over 3,000 sleep related infant deaths each year in the United States. Attempts to teach medical personnel and parents safe infant sleep practices in the infant sleep training literature have demonstrated mixed results. Thus, strategies to teach arrangements of safe infant sleep environments warrant further investigation. Behavioral…
Descriptors: Infant Mortality, Infants, Infant Care, Child Health
Herzberg, Orit; Fletcher, Katelyn K.; Schatz, Jacob L.; Adolph, Karen E.; Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S. – Child Development, 2022
Object play yields enormous benefits for infant development. However, little is known about natural play at home where most object interactions occur. We conducted frame-by-frame video analyses of spontaneous activity in two 2-h home visits with 13-month-old crawling infants and 13-, 18-, and 23-month-old walking infants (N = 40; 21 boys; 75%…
Descriptors: Infants, Infant Behavior, Play, Object Manipulation
Zhao, T. Christina; Corrigan, Neva M.; Yarnykh, Vasily L.; Kuhl, Patricia K. – Developmental Science, 2022
The development of skills related to executive function (EF) in infancy, including their emergence, underlying neural mechanisms, and interconnections to other cognitive skills, is an area of increasing research interest. Here, we report on findings from a multidimensional dataset demonstrating that infants' behavioral performance on a flexible…
Descriptors: Infants, Executive Function, Skill Development, Cognitive Ability
Mendoza, Jennifer K.; Fausey, Caitlin M. – Cognitive Science, 2022
Experience-dependent change pervades early human development. Though trajectories of developmental change have been well charted in many domains, the episode-to-episode schedules of experiences on which they are hypothesized to depend have not. Here, we took up this issue in a domain known to be governed in part by early experiences: music. Using…
Descriptors: Music, Infants, Child Development, Environment
Juanita Bloomfield; José María Cabrera – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2026
We evaluate the long-term effects of receiving the Uruguayan "Plan de Atención Nacional a la Emergencia Social" (PANES), a large unconditional cash transfer program, on outcomes for young and unborn children. We use a rich dataset that matches program administrative data to vital natality data and educational records 8 to 12 years after…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Financial Support, Welfare Services, Poverty Programs
Kokkinaki, Theano; Markodimitraki, Maria; Vasdekis, Vassilis G.S. – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
We compared maternal speech in interactions of mothers with their firstborn dizygotic twin and singleton infants. Nine twins and nine singletons were video-recorded at home in spontaneous face-to-face interactions with their mothers, from the 2nd to the 6th month. Continuous micro-analysis revealed that there are more quantitative and qualitative…
Descriptors: Mothers, Twins, Parent Child Relationship, Infant Behavior
Moreno-Llanos, Iván; Zapardiel, Laura A.; Rodríguez, Cintia – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2021
Executive functions (EFs) embrace a range of cognitive control processes that allow us to control and direct our own behavior, thoughts, and emotions and to develop complex responses to difficulties. Standardized tasks commonly used to investigate EFs are reviewed. Here, a study is reported of the first challenges that children set for themselves…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Self Control, Infants, Barriers
Orr, Edna – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
The current study is the first to examine the role of exploration in play milestones development using a multi-measure micro-analytic approach. Fifteen infants, between the ages of 8 and 17 months, were observed in their natural home environment once a month for a one--hour session; their spontaneous mouthing and fingering and their play level…
Descriptors: Infants, Infant Behavior, Play, Discovery Learning
