Mutual Visual Regard during Mother-Infant Play
- 1 April 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 42 (2) , 427-431
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1976.42.2.427
Abstract
Mutual visual regard was observed in 48 mother-infant dyads during a 6-min. play session. Infant-mother dyads containing 4-mo.-olds displayed significantly more mutual visual regard than did dyads containing 6- or 8-mo.-olds. In addition, the more time infants spent in face-to-face interaction with mother, the more smiling they engaged in. No sex differences were observed.Keywords
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- THE ROLE OF EYE‐TO‐EYE CONTACT IN MATERNAL‐INFANT ATTACHMENTJournal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 1967