There are several different theoretical and research approaches to the study of socialization,
characterized by frequently competing basic tenets and apparently contradictory evidence …

Background Scaffolding can be observed during learning‐based interactions, when
interventions by parents are adjusted according to children's observed abilities, with the …

Cognitive Development and Cognitive Neuroscience: The Learning Brain is a thoroughly
revised edition of the bestselling Cognitive Development. The new edition of this full-colour …

Relations among different measures of maternal sensitivity were assessed longitudinally by
examining maternal behavior when infants were 4 months, 15 months, and 2.5 years. At …

A briefing which summarises key issues from this report has also been published. The report
and briefing are available electronically at the Primary Review website: www. primaryreview …

Play is one of the most difficult behaviors to quantify and for this reason, its study has had a
very rocky history. Social play is ephemeral, difficult to distinguish from the other so-called …

We examined gestural and verbal interactions in 226 mother–infant pairs from Mexican,
Dominican, and African American backgrounds when infants were 14 months and 2 years of …

As infants interact with the object world, they generate rich information about object
properties and functions. Much of infant learning unfolds in the presence of caregivers, who …

Evolutionary maternal effects occur whenever a mother's phenotypic traits directly affect her
offspring's phenotype, independent of the offspring's genotype. Some of the phenotypic traits …

We investigated how 14‐month‐old infants know what others know. In two studies, an infant
played with each of two objects in turn while an experimenter was present. Then the …