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CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Volume 74, Issue 1, Pages 221-237Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8624.00532
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- NICHD NIH HHS [HD 07697] Funding Source: Medline
- NIMH NIH HHS [MH 41511] Funding Source: Medline
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH [R01MH041511] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Two studies investigated whether 10- and 12-month-olds can use televised emotional reactions to guide their behavior. Infants watched an actress orient toward I of 2 novel objects and react with neutral affect during baseline and with positive or negative affect during test. Infants then had 30 s to interact with the objects. In Study 1, 12-month-olds (N = 32) avoided the target object and showed increases in negative affect after observing the negative-emotion scenario. Twelve-month-olds' responses to positive vs. neutral signals did not differ significantly. In Study 2, 10-month-olds (N = 32) attended to the televised presentations but showed no consistent changes in their object interactions or affect. Thus, 12-month-olds used social information presented on television and associated emotional signals with the intended target.
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