Nonverbal communication, affective sharing, and intersubjectivity

Peter Clive Mundy; Connie Kasari; Marian Sigman

doi:10.1016/0163-6383(92)80006-G

Nonverbal communication, affective sharing, and intersubjectivity

Peter Clive Mundy, Connie Kasari, Marian Sigman

Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

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Abstract

A critical difference between nonverbal joint attention and requesting skills may lie in their conveyance of affect as part of the communicative act. This study of 32 infants (mean age = 20.2 months) indicated that more positive affect was displayed in association with joint attention rather than requesting acts. Thus, joint attention behaviors not only involve the coordination of attention to objects and events, but also the capacity to share affective experience vis-à-vis objects and events. Therefore, measures of joint attention behaviors may provide an operationalization of one aspect of intersubjectivity in infancy.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	377-381
Number of pages	5
Journal	Infant Behavior and Development
Volume	15
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0163-6383(92)80006-G
State	Published - 1992

Keywords

communication affect
intersubjectivity
social development

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Developmental and Educational Psychology

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