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Young Children Create Iconic Gestures to Inform Others
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Behne, Tanya; Carpenter, Malinda; Tomasello, Michael – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Much is known about young children's use of deictic gestures such as pointing. Much less is known about their use of other types of communicative gestures, especially iconic or symbolic gestures. In particular, it is unknown whether children can create iconic gestures on the spot to inform others. Study 1 provided 27-month-olds with the…
Descriptors: Young Children, Nonverbal Communication, Novices, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension)
Young Children's Understanding of Joint Commitments
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Grafenhain, Maria; Behne, Tanya; Carpenter, Malinda; Tomasello, Michael – Developmental Psychology, 2009
When adults make a joint commitment to act together, they feel an obligation to their partner. In 2 studies, the authors investigated whether young children also understand joint commitments to act together. In the first study, when an adult orchestrated with the child a joint commitment to play a game together and then broke off from their joint…
Descriptors: Young Children, Toddlers, Age Differences, Adults
One-Year-Olds' Understanding of Nonverbal Gestures Directed to a Third Person
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Grafenhain, Maria; Behne, Tanya; Carpenter, Malinda; Tomasello, Michael – Cognitive Development, 2009
We investigated whether infants comprehend others' nonverbal communicative intentions directed to a third person, in an "overhearing" context. An experimenter addressed an assistant and indicated a hidden toy's location by either gazing ostensively or pointing to the location for her. In a matched control condition, the experimenter performed…
Descriptors: Cues, Interpersonal Communication, Infants, Comprehension
Early Social Cognition in Three Cultural Contexts
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Callaghan, Tara; Moll, Henrike; Rakoczy, Hannes; Warneken, Felix; Liszkowski, Ulf; Behne, Tanya; Tomasello, Michael – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 2011
The influence of culture on cognitive development is well established for school age and older children. But almost nothing is known about how different parenting and socialization practices in different cultures affect infants' and young children's earliest emerging cognitive and social-cognitive skills. In the current monograph, we report a…
Descriptors: Social Cognition, Cognitive Development, Infants, Young Children
Infants Use Shared Experience to Interpret Pointing Gestures
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Liebal, Kristin; Behne, Tanya; Carpenter, Malinda; Tomasello, Michael – Developmental Science, 2009
We investigated whether 1-year-old infants use their shared experience with an adult to determine the meaning of a pointing gesture. In the first study, after two adults had each shared a different activity with the infant, one of the adults pointed to a target object. Eighteen- but not 14-month-olds responded appropriately to the pointing gesture…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Infants, Language Acquisition, Adults
One-Year-Olds Comprehend the Communicative Intentions behind Gestures in a Hiding Game
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Behne, Tanya; Carpenter, Malinda; Tomasello, Michael – Developmental Science, 2005
This study explored infants' ability to infer communicative intent as expressed in non-linguistic gestures. Sixty children aged 14, 18 and 24 months participated. In the context of a hiding game, an adult indicated for the child the location of a hidden toy by giving a communicative cue: either pointing or ostensive gazing toward the container…
Descriptors: Cues, Interpersonal Communication, Infants, Toys