Sensitivity to social contingency from mothers and strangers in 2-, 4-, and 6-month-old infants

Infancy

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 111-140

  Bigelow, Ann E ^a   DeCoste, Cindy ^a,b  

^a ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; INFANT; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

EID: 1842800047     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327078IN0401_6     Document Type: Article

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