Perceiving other people's behaviors activates imitative motor plans in the perceiver, but
there is disagreement as to the function of this activation. In contrast to other recent …

Social referencing—the receipt and use of other persons' interpretations of a situation to
form one's own understanding of that situation—influences much human behavior. Although …

Abstract Goren, Sarty, and Wu (1975) claimed that newborn infants will follow a slowly
moving schematic face stimulus with their head and eyes further than they will folow …

Newborn infants ranging in age from 0.7 to 71 hours old were tested for their ability to imitate
2 adult facial gestures: mouth opening and tongue protrusion. Each subject acted as his or …

With the discovery of conditioned reflexes by IP Pavlov, the possibilities for experimenting,
following the example set by the classical, exact sciences, were made available to the …

The central problem for social science is to explain social order. How do people manage to
live together? One can discern two ways of answering that question. The first view is …

Human neonates (average age, 36 hours) discriminated three facial expressions (happy,
sad, and surprised) posed by a live model as evidenced by diminished visual fixation on …

Using a consistent Skinnerian perspective, Behavior Analysis and Learning: A
Biobehavioral Approach, Sixth Edition provides an advanced introduction to the principles of …

This chapter is concerned with some of the issues involved in understanding how perception
contributes to the control of actions. Roughly speaking, the term of action refers to any …

A long-standing puzzle in developmental psychology is how infants imitate gestures they
cannot see themselves perform (facial gestures). Two critical issues are:(a) the metric infants …