How Mothers Encourage and Discourage Infants' Motor Actions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16782899 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lana B Karasik (0000-0003-0764-4557, New York University, corresponding author), Catherine S Tamis‐lemonda (0000-0002-9071-4028, New York University), Karen E Adolph (0000-0003-2819-134X, New York University), Katherine A Dimitropoulou, Katherine Dimitropoulou (0000-0002-1949-0885, New York University) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 366-392 |
| Publication date | 2008-07-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Infancy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1525-0008 • E-ISSN: 1532-7078 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15250000802188776 |
| OpenAlex | W2129214805 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 44 |
The content of mothers' emotional, verbal, and gestural communication to their infants was examined under conditions of potential physical risk in a laboratory motor task. Mothers encouraged and discouraged their 12‐ and 18‐month‐old infants to crawl or walk down a sloping walkway. Mothers expressed positive affect on nearly every trial. They rarely expressed purely negative affect in their faces and voices, even when discouraging. Instead, they discouraged infants with a mixture of positive and negative expressions. In both encourage and discourage conditions, mothers coupled their emotional messages with rich verbal and gestural information to elicit infants' attention, regulate their location, guide their actions, and describe the situation and potential consequences of their actions. The content of mothers' communication was attuned to infants' age and locomotor experience
Developmental psychology · Motor activity · Nonverbal communication · Child and Animal Learning Development · Communication · Hearing Impairment and Communication · Language Development and Disorders · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Parent–Infant Communicative Interactions in Cultural ContextCatherine S. Tamis‐LeMonda and Lulu Song are at New York University's Center for Research on Culture, Development, and Education, and acknowledge funding by NSF BCS grant #021859 and NSF Irads grant #0721383. We thank our colleagues and staff at the Center and NYU who contribute to our thinking about culture and development on a daily basis
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 0,39 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2025 (18) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |