An important shift is taking place in social cognition research, away from a focus on the
individual mind and toward embodied and participatory aspects of social understanding …

We review research evidence on the emergence and development of active “self-and-other”
awareness in infancy, and examine the importance of its motives and emotions to mental …

Human beings are not merely social, they are inherently cultural. Infants are born with
motives in their complex brains that lead them to learn through communicating about …

Objective To investigate the effect of mother/infant skin‐to‐skin contact (SSC) on mothers'
postpartum depressive symptoms during the first 3 postpartum months and their …

In this lively book, Philippe Rochat makes a case for an ecological approach to human
development. Looking at the ecological niche infants occupy, he describes how infants …

The authors examined whether the quality and content of everyday parent-child
conversations about negative emotions are the same or different from everyday talk about …

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 …

Résumé Nous passons en revue les publications des trente dernières années sur
l'émergence et le développement de la conscience «de soi et de l'autre» au cours de la …

Early imitation is currently a major topic for developmentalists. They investigate its
developmental role and elaborate models concerning the processes through which imitation …

This brief report reviews findings from a longitudinal study of skin-to-skin contact (SSC) with
mothers and full-term infants and a follow-up study of these dyads when the children were 9 …