An Audience Effect on Smile Production in 10-Month-Old Infants
- 1 January 1991
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Science
- Vol. 2 (1) , 45-49
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.1991.tb00095.x
Abstract
This report presents evidence that smile production in 10-month-old infants is affected by the presence or absence of an audience for the facial display. The audience effect does not appear to be mediated by emotion. The evidence indicates that the production of facial expressions is at least partly independent of emotion and partly dependent on a social-communicative context from a very early age.Keywords
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