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Communication of smiling and laughter in mother‐infant play: Research on emotion from a dynamic systems perspective
Author(s) -
Fogel Alan,
Dickson K. Laurie,
Hsu Huichin,
Messinger Daniel,
NelsonGoens G. Christina,
Nwokah Evangeline
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
new directions for child and adolescent development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.628
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1534-8687
pISSN - 1520-3247
DOI - 10.1002/cd.23219977702
Subject(s) - chin , miami , laughter , perspective (graphical) , psychology , psycinfo , library science , psychoanalysis , sociology , visual arts , art , social psychology , medicine , computer science , medline , environmental science , political science , soil science , law , anatomy
In this chapter we present a summary of our recent work examining emotional development in infancy from a dynamic systems perspective. Our goal is to describe the studies that have evolved from our research group and to explain how these studies have been informed by dynamic systems thinking. Reviews of our dynamiC systems approach to emotional development can be found in the following works: Dickson, Fogel, and Messinger (forthcoming); Fogel and others (1992); Fogel, Nwokah, and Karns (1991); Fogel and Thelen (1987); and Messinger, Fogel, and Dickson (1997). Additional theoretical discussions of dYnamic systems approaches applied to emotion can be found in Camras (1992), Haviland and Kahlbaugh (1993), Lewis (1993, 1995), and Wolff (1987). We open this chapter with a theoretical overview, followed by a report on our work on the development of emotions related to the expressions of smiling and laughter during the first three years of life in the context of parentinfant play. Smiling is examined in the follOwing social contexts: during face-to-face mother-infant communication (from one to six months), during