Infants' sense of people : precursors to a theory of mind /
Maria Legerstee.
- 230 p. : ill.
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 on infant's 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. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
"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 developmental theory, Maria Legerstee takes the view that infants have an innate sense of people at birth, which is activated through sympathetic emotions."--BOOK JACKET.