Infant Social Cognition Theoretical and Empirical Considerations

Preface, 1. Infant Social Cognition: An Introduction, 2. Issues In Cognitive-Perceptual Development: The Special Cale of Social Stimuli, 3. The Recognition of Specific Persons, 4. Perceptual Aspects of Social Knowing: Looking and Listening In Infancy, 5. Recognition of Emotional Expression In Infancy?, 6. Individual Differences In Parental Sensitivity: Origins, Components, and Consequences, 7. The Development of Social Expectations In the First Year of Life, 8. The Perception of Contingency and Social Development, 9. The Relation Between Emotion and Cognition In Infant Development, 10. Perception, Appral.al and Emotion: The Onset of Social Referencing, 11. Developmental Changes in Strategies of Social Interaction, 12. Early Person Knowledge as Expressed in Gestural and Verbal Communication: When Do Infants Acquire a “Theory of Mind”?, 13. The Effects of Social Experience and Social Style on Cognitive Competence and Performance, 14. Self-Knowledge: A Social Cognitive Perspective on Gender Identity and Sex-Role Development, Author Index, Subject Index

Biography

Michael. E. Lamb, Departments of Psychology and Pediatrics, University of Utah. Lonnie. R. Sherrod, Social Science Research Council.