Understanding the self in relation to others: Infants spontaneously map another's face to their own at 16-26 months
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Understanding the self in relation to others : Infants spontaneously map another's face to their own at 16-26 months. / Kampis, Dora; Grosse Wiesmann, Charlotte; Koop, Sarah; Southgate, Victoria Helen.
In: Developmental Science, Vol. 25, No. 3, e13197, 01.05.2022.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Understanding the self in relation to others
T2 - Infants spontaneously map another's face to their own at 16-26 months
AU - Kampis, Dora
AU - Grosse Wiesmann, Charlotte
AU - Koop, Sarah
AU - Southgate, Victoria Helen
PY - 2022/5/1
Y1 - 2022/5/1
N2 - The current study probed whether infants understand themselves in relation to others. Infants aged 16–26 months (n = 102) saw their parent wearing a sticker on their forehead or cheek, depending on experimental condition, placed unwitnessed by the child. Infants then received a sticker themselves, and their spontaneous behavior was coded. Regardless of age, from 16 months, all infants who placed the sticker on their cheek or forehead, placed it on the location on their own face matching their parent's placement. This shows that infants as young as 16 months of age have an internal map of their face in relation to others that they can use to guide their behavior. Whether infants placed the sticker on the matching location was related to other measures associated with self-concept development (the use of their own name and mirror self-recognition), indicating that it may reflect a social aspect of children's developing self-concept, namely their understanding of themselves in relation and comparison to others. About half of the infants placed the sticker on themselves, while others put it elsewhere in the surrounding, indicating an additional motivational component to bring about on themselves the state, which they observed on their parent. Together, infants’ placement of the sticker in our task suggests an ability to compare, and motivation to align, self and others
AB - The current study probed whether infants understand themselves in relation to others. Infants aged 16–26 months (n = 102) saw their parent wearing a sticker on their forehead or cheek, depending on experimental condition, placed unwitnessed by the child. Infants then received a sticker themselves, and their spontaneous behavior was coded. Regardless of age, from 16 months, all infants who placed the sticker on their cheek or forehead, placed it on the location on their own face matching their parent's placement. This shows that infants as young as 16 months of age have an internal map of their face in relation to others that they can use to guide their behavior. Whether infants placed the sticker on the matching location was related to other measures associated with self-concept development (the use of their own name and mirror self-recognition), indicating that it may reflect a social aspect of children's developing self-concept, namely their understanding of themselves in relation and comparison to others. About half of the infants placed the sticker on themselves, while others put it elsewhere in the surrounding, indicating an additional motivational component to bring about on themselves the state, which they observed on their parent. Together, infants’ placement of the sticker in our task suggests an ability to compare, and motivation to align, self and others
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - self-other alignment
KW - self-other comparison
KW - self-other map
KW - self-other relation
KW - social self
KW - sticker task
U2 - 10.1111/desc.13197
DO - 10.1111/desc.13197
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 34826359
VL - 25
JO - Developmental Science
JF - Developmental Science
SN - 1363-755X
IS - 3
M1 - e13197
ER -
ID: 291603615