Lauren B. Adamson

TL;DR: In this article, the normal feedback infants receive from their mothers in face-to-face interaction was distorted by having the mothers face their infants but remain facially unresponsive, demonstrating the importance of interactional reciprocity and the ability of infants to regulate their emotional displays.

TL;DR: The normal feedback infants receive from their mothers in face-to-face interaction was distorted by having the mothers face their infants but remain facially unresponsive, demonstrating the importance of interactional reciprocity and the ability of infants to regulate their emotional displays.

TL;DR: It is concluded that mothers may indeed support or "scaffold" their infants' early attempts to embed objects in social interaction, but that as attentional capabilities develop even quite unskilled peers may be appropriate partners for the exercise of these capacities.

TL;DR: Wide variation in the quality of nonverbal and verbal interactions at 24 months accounted for 27% of the variance in expressive language 1 year later, and indicators of quality were considerably more potent predictors of later language ability than was the quantity of mothers’ words during the interaction or sensitive parenting.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a history of the still-face paradigm and describe the formalization of a procedure that reliably produces it, and discuss how this procedure has been used to investigate a broad range of questions about early social and emotional development.