During infancy relational experiences of body-to-body exchanges (ie, embodied
interactions) contribute to the infant's bodily perception. Early embodied interactions are …

Various lines of research suggest that parental mind-mindedness can facilitate children's
cognitive and social growth (eg, executive functions and social cognition) in addition to …

This new edition of Handbook of Mentalizing in Mental Health Practice reflects a vibrant field
undergoing development along a number of dimensions important for mental health. As …

Parental mind-mindedness, the parent's propensity to treat the child as an intentional agent,
has repeatedly shown to promote children's development of social understanding and …

Mother-child emotion talk is one of the main ways through which children learn about
emotions. Some previous research studies have suggested that mother-child emotion talk is …

The caregiver's touch behavior during early infancy is linked to multiple developmental
outcomes. However, social touch remains a challenging construct to operationalize, and …

In the last decade, philosophy, neuroscience and psychology alike have paid increasing
attention to the study of interpersonal affective touch, which refers to the emotional and …

In this paper, we propose that interpersonal bodily interactions represent a fertile ground in
which the bodily and psychological self is developed, gradually allowing for forms of more …

The past years have seen a renewed interest in measuring neural, physiological or
cognitive, immediate and longer-term effects of human interaction through touch. The term …

During the first years of life, maternal touch can serve different functions including facilitation
of child's gaze orientation to faces which is a key precursor for social attention. Although …