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Infants' sense of people : precursors to a theory of mind /

"Infants' Sense of People focuses on infants during their first year of life, exploring how they begin to think about other people, their feelings, emotions, and intentions, and how they become aware of these aspects of their own development. Drawing on a broad range of research and develo...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Legerstee, Maria Theresia, 1944- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Definitions, theories, and plan of the book
  • Endogenous and exogenous influences in development
  • Animate/inanimate distinction
  • Self and consciousness
  • Dyadic interactions
  • Triadic interactions : joint engagement in 5 and 7-month-olds
  • Social influences of infants' developing sense of people
  • Affect attunement and pre-linguistic communication
  • The quality of social interaction affects infants' primitive desire reasoning
  • Social cognition : affect attunement, imitation, and contingency.