Infants use attention but not emotions to predict others' actions

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 79-87

  Vaish, Amrisha ^a   Woodward, Amanda ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion understanding; Folk psychology; Intentionality; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TIME; VIDEORECORDING; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REFERENCE VALUES; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 75549090332     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2009.11.003     Document Type: Article

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