Putting the 'Joy' in Joint Attention:Affective-Gestural Synchrony by Parents who Point for their Babies

Putting the 'Joy' in Joint Attention:Affective-Gestural Synchrony by Parents who Point for their Babies

Despite a growing body of work examining the expression of infants' positive emotion in joint attention contexts, few studies have examined the moment-by-moment dynamics of emotional signaling by adults interacting with babies in these contexts. We invited 73 parents of infants (three fathers)...

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Main Authors: David A. Leavens, Jo eSansone, Anna eBurfield, Sian eLightfoot, Stefanie eO'Hara, Brenda K. Todd
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
Smiling
Embodied Cognition
intersubjectivity
pointing
affective-gestural synchrony
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00879/full

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