TY - JOUR
T1 - Anticipatory smiling
T2 - Linking early affective communication and social outcome
AU - Parlade, Meaghan Venezia
AU - Messinger, Daniel S.
AU - Delgado, Christine E.F.
AU - Kaiser, Marygrace Yale
AU - Van Hecke, Amy Vaughan
AU - Mundy, Peter C.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported in part by grants from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (HD 41619) to Daniel S. Messinger, the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (R01 DC00484) to D. Kimbrough Oller, and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (38052) to Peter C. Mundy. Portions of these data were presented at the 2004 biennial meeting of the International Conference on Infant Studies, Chicago, IL, and the 2005 biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, GA. We would like to extend special thanks to the infants and their families without whose enthusiastic participation the study could not have been completed. We also thank Danielle Thorp, Jessica J. Block, Yuly B. Pomares, Jessica A. Hobson, Rebecca Neal, and Anna Frusciante for helping with data collection and coding.
PY - 2009/1
Y1 - 2009/1
N2 - In anticipatory smiles, infants appear to communicate pre-existing positive affect by smiling at an object and then turning the smile toward an adult. We report two studies in which the precursors, development, and consequences of anticipatory smiling were investigated. Study 1 revealed a positive correlation between infant smiling at 6 months and the level of anticipatory smiling at 8 and 10 months during joint attention episodes, as well as a positive correlation between anticipatory smiling and parent-rated social expressivity scores at 30 months. Study 2 confirmed a developmental increase in the number of infants using anticipatory smiles between 9 and 12 months that had been initially documented in the Study 1 sample [Venezia, M., Messinger, D. S., Thorp, D., & Mundy, P. (2004). The development of anticipatory smiling. Infancy, 6(3), 397-406]. Additionally, anticipatory smiling at 9 months positively predicted parent-rated social competence scores at 30 months. Findings are discussed with regard to the importance of anticipatory smiling in early socioemotional development.
AB - In anticipatory smiles, infants appear to communicate pre-existing positive affect by smiling at an object and then turning the smile toward an adult. We report two studies in which the precursors, development, and consequences of anticipatory smiling were investigated. Study 1 revealed a positive correlation between infant smiling at 6 months and the level of anticipatory smiling at 8 and 10 months during joint attention episodes, as well as a positive correlation between anticipatory smiling and parent-rated social expressivity scores at 30 months. Study 2 confirmed a developmental increase in the number of infants using anticipatory smiles between 9 and 12 months that had been initially documented in the Study 1 sample [Venezia, M., Messinger, D. S., Thorp, D., & Mundy, P. (2004). The development of anticipatory smiling. Infancy, 6(3), 397-406]. Additionally, anticipatory smiling at 9 months positively predicted parent-rated social competence scores at 30 months. Findings are discussed with regard to the importance of anticipatory smiling in early socioemotional development.
KW - Anticipatory smiling
KW - Infant
KW - Joint attention
KW - Social competence
KW - Social emotional development
KW - Social smiling
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U2 - 10.1016/j.infbeh.2008.09.007
DO - 10.1016/j.infbeh.2008.09.007
M3 - Article
C2 - 19004500
AN - SCOPUS:58149466419
VL - 32
SP - 33
EP - 43
JO - Infant Behavior and Development
JF - Infant Behavior and Development
SN - 0163-6383
IS - 1
ER -