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Self or (M)other? Infants’ Sensitivity to Bodily Overlap with their Mother Reflects their Dyadic Coordination

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Self or (M)other? Infants’ Sensitivity to Bodily Overlap with their Mother Reflects their Dyadic Coordination. / Maister, Lara; Hodossy, Lilla; Tsakiris, Manos et al.
In: Child Development, Vol. 91, No. 5, 09.2020, p. 1631-1649.

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Maister, L, Hodossy, L, Tsakiris, M & Shinskey, J 2020, 'Self or (M)other? Infants’ Sensitivity to Bodily Overlap with their Mother Reflects their Dyadic Coordination', Child Development, vol. 91, no. 5, pp. 1631-1649. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13361

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Maister, L., Hodossy, L., Tsakiris, M., & Shinskey, J. (2020). Self or (M)other? Infants’ Sensitivity to Bodily Overlap with their Mother Reflects their Dyadic Coordination. Child Development, 91(5), 1631-1649. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13361

CBE

Maister L, Hodossy L, Tsakiris M, Shinskey J. 2020. Self or (M)other? Infants’ Sensitivity to Bodily Overlap with their Mother Reflects their Dyadic Coordination. Child Development. 91(5):1631-1649. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13361

MLA

Maister, Lara et al. "Self or (M)other? Infants’ Sensitivity to Bodily Overlap with their Mother Reflects their Dyadic Coordination". Child Development. 2020, 91(5). 1631-1649. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13361

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Maister L, Hodossy L, Tsakiris M, Shinskey J. Self or (M)other? Infants’ Sensitivity to Bodily Overlap with their Mother Reflects their Dyadic Coordination. Child Development. 2020 Sept;91(5):1631-1649. Epub 2020 Apr 1. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13361

Author

Maister, Lara ; Hodossy, Lilla ; Tsakiris, Manos et al. / Self or (M)other? Infants’ Sensitivity to Bodily Overlap with their Mother Reflects their Dyadic Coordination. In: Child Development. 2020 ; Vol. 91, No. 5. pp. 1631-1649.

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TY - JOUR

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 -