Social animals including humans share a range of social mechanisms that are automatic
and implicit and enable learning by observation. Learning from others includes imitation of …

According to attachment theory (eg, Bowlby, 1969/1982, 1973, 1980), infants develop
cognitive models (termed internal working models, IWMs) of their attachment figures during …

A field experiment examined whether increasing opportunities for face-to-face interaction
while eliminating the use of screen-based media and communication tools improved …

An ongoing debate in affective science concerns whether certain discrete,“basic” emotions
have evolutionarily based signals (facial expressions) that are easily, universally, and …

Gender socialization influences children at early ages, shaping their developing identities.
The toys provided by parents deliver some of the earliest gender-based messages by …

Parenting and Theory of Mind represents the conjunction of two major research literatures in
child psychology. One is longstanding. The question of how best to rear children has been a …

Early evidence of social referencing was examined in 5½-month-old infants. Infants were
habituated to 2 films of moving toys, one toy eliciting a woman's positive emotional …

From birth, mothers and infants co-regulate their interactions that are shaped by their socio-
emotional development, relationship history, current circumstances, and goals. However …

While there is an extensive literature on the tendency to mimic emotional expressions in
adults, it is unclear how this skill emerges and develops over time. Specifically, it is unclear …

The evolution of language has developed into a large research field. Two questions are
particularly relevant for this strand of research: firstly, how did the human capacity for …