Social Referencing and the Social Construction of Reality in Infancy

Integrating the perspectives of a number of disciplines, this work examines social referencing in infants within the broader contexts of cognition, social relations, and human society as a whole.

Orientations and Beginnings: In the Broad Valley (S. Feinman). A Critical Review of Social Referencing in Infancy (S. Feinman et al.). Meaning and Understanding: Social Referencing, Intentional Communication and the Interfacing of Minds in Infancy (I. Bretherton). Social Referencing Research (R.N. Emde). A Phenomenonological Analysis of Social Referencing (N.K. Denzin). The Links Between Imitation and Social Referencing (I.C. Uzgiris, J.C. Kruper). Cognition and Information Processing: Infant Social Referencing as a Learned Process (J.L. Gewirtz, M. PeláezNogueras). Social Cognitive Theory of Social Referencing (A. Bandura). Relationships and Interaction: Indirect and Direct Effects and Family Interaction (M.L. Lewis, C. Feiring). Infants' Social Interaction with Adults (B. Rogoff et al.). Connections and Directions: What Do We Know and Where Shall We Go? (S. Feinman). 4 additional articles. Index.