Self or (M)other? Infants’ Sensitivity to Bodily Overlap with their Mother Reflects their Dyadic Coordination
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Yn: Child Development, Cyfrol 91, Rhif 5, 09.2020, t. 1631-1649.
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T1 - Self or (M)other? Infants’ Sensitivity to Bodily Overlap with their Mother Reflects their Dyadic Coordination
AU - Maister, Lara
AU - Hodossy, Lilla
AU - Tsakiris, Manos
AU - Shinskey, Jeanne
N1 - This work was supported by an Economic and Social Research Council grant (ES/K013378/1) to M. Tsakiris, J.L. Shinskey, and L. Maister and a European Research Council grant (ERC-2010-StG-262853) under the Seventh Framework Programme to M. Tsakiris.
PY - 2020/9
Y1 - 2020/9
N2 - Adults experience greater self-other bodily overlap in romantic than platonic relationships. One of the closest relationships is between mother and infant, yet little is known about their mutual bodily representations. This study measured infants’ sensitivity to bodily overlap with their mother. Twenty-one 6- to 8-month-olds watched their mother’s face or a stranger’s face being stroked synchronously vs. asynchronously with their own face. Infants preferred synchrony only when viewing their mother, not when viewing the stranger. Infants who strongly preferred synchrony with their mother also experienced less coordination with her in naturalistic interactions. Infants thus appear sensitive to bodily overlap with their mother, and this overlap reflects dyadic coordination, supporting theoretical accounts of intersubjectivity in the development of the bodily self.
AB - Adults experience greater self-other bodily overlap in romantic than platonic relationships. One of the closest relationships is between mother and infant, yet little is known about their mutual bodily representations. This study measured infants’ sensitivity to bodily overlap with their mother. Twenty-one 6- to 8-month-olds watched their mother’s face or a stranger’s face being stroked synchronously vs. asynchronously with their own face. Infants preferred synchrony only when viewing their mother, not when viewing the stranger. Infants who strongly preferred synchrony with their mother also experienced less coordination with her in naturalistic interactions. Infants thus appear sensitive to bodily overlap with their mother, and this overlap reflects dyadic coordination, supporting theoretical accounts of intersubjectivity in the development of the bodily self.
KW - Infants’ self-other distinction
KW - Body representation
KW - infant-mother coordination
U2 - 10.1111/cdev.13361
DO - 10.1111/cdev.13361
M3 - Article
VL - 91
SP - 1631
EP - 1649
JO - Child Development
JF - Child Development
SN - 1467-8624
IS - 5
ER -