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.

More specifically, when we examine the direct effects of information seeking and
vocalization on child information seeking, vocalization, and IQ with indirect effects
held constant, we note that these relations tend to be of greater magnitude than ...