"Responsiveness and Dependency Are Different Aspects of Social Contingencies: An Example from Mother and Infant Smiles" by Douglas Symons

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Responsiveness and Dependency Are Different Aspects of Social Contingencies: An Example from Mother and Infant Smiles

Infant Behavior and Development (1994)

Douglas Symons
Greg Moran, University of Western Ontario

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Abstract

Data from early mother-infant face-to-face interactions are used to demonstrate that a statistical association, widely accepted as the single indicator of sequential dependency between the behavior of two interactants, in fact reflects a combination of responsiveness and dependency comprising two independent aspects of the contingency environment. The derivation of these measures from behavior coded in real-time is illustrated in an analysis of the reciprocal relations between the smiling behavior of mothers and their 2- to 5-month-old infants.

Keywords

Contingency,
Mother-infant Interaction,
Social Smiling,
Sequential Analysis

Disciplines

Developmental Psychology

Publication Date

April, 1994

Publisher Statement

Published in: Infant Behavior and Development, Volume 17, Issue 2, April-June 1994, pages 209-214. doi: 10.1016/0163-6383(94)90057-4

Citation Information

Douglas Symons and Greg Moran. "Responsiveness and Dependency Are Different Aspects of Social Contingencies: An Example from Mother and Infant Smiles" Infant Behavior and Development Vol. 17 Iss. 2 (1994)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/gregmoran/56/