文档介绍：Looking behavior is a human skill in detecting and interpreting information. At around 9 to 12 months, infants begin to follow others’ gaze and to engage in joint attention (Carpenter, Nagell, & Tomasello, 1998). As novices in many situations, infants learn and gather information in the context of social-affective relationships (Campos & Sternberg, 1981), and they are born with an intrinsic motivation to interact with other people (Tronick, 2003). Infants look to adults for seeking emotional cues or other social clues to guide their actions.
Through social referencing, infants figure out how to feel and behave with respect to the many new events encountered everyday situations. As a spontaneous action for gathering social information, infants’ attention to others’ faces is expected to play an important role in the development of social cognition.
However, little is known about whether infants’ social looking is related to their later social understanding. anizing and interpreting others’ feelings are one of the ponents in processing social signals and an index of petence. Thus, this study investigated developmental links between infants’ looking behaviors and their emotional recognition at preschool age.
Infants’ Social Looking Predicts Emotion Recognition Performance at Preschool Age
Ji-Hyun Sung & Hui-Chin Hsu
Department of Child and Family Development, The University of