Making Friends with One-Year-Olds: An Experimental Study of Infant-Stranger Interaction.

Bretherton, Inge

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ERIC Number: EJ176056

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Publication Date: 1978

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Making Friends with One-Year-Olds: An Experimental Study of Infant-Stranger Interaction

Bretherton, Inge

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 24, 1, 29-52, Jan 78

This study tested the hypothesis that one year old infants' wary behavior toward an unfamiliar female adult would decrease and affiliative behavior would significantly increase in the course of a relatively brief period. (Author/SB)

Descriptors: Friendship, Infant Behavior, Infants, Research, Social Relations, Stranger Reactions

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