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Hepach, Robert; Vaish, Amrisha; Tomasello, Michael – Developmental Psychology, 2013
Three-year-old children saw an adult displaying the exact same distress in 3 different conditions: (a) the adult's distress was appropriate to a genuine harm, (b) the adult's distress was an overreaction to a minor inconvenience, and (c) there was no apparent cause for the adult's distress. Children who witnessed the adult being appropriately…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Prosocial Behavior, Helping Relationship, Toddlers
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Liszkowski, Ulf; Tomasello, Michael – Cognitive Development, 2011
Little is known about the origins of the pointing gesture. We sought to gain insight into its emergence by investigating individual differences in the pointing of 12-month-old infants in two ways. First, we looked at differences in the communicative and interactional uses of pointing and asked how different hand shapes relate to point frequency,…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Mothers, Infants, Individual Differences