This new edition of the bestselling text, Nurturing Natures, provides an indispensable
synthesis of the latest scientific knowledge about children's emotional development …

Cultures depend on a ceaseless, highly creative learning process, which is not just an
acquiring of information transmitted by instructing the young. It is motivated by an innate …

The extended mind thesis (EM) asserts that some cognitive processes are (partially)
composed of actions consisting of the manipulation and exploitation of environmental …

Social smiling is universally regarded as being an infant's first facial expression of pleasure.
Underlying co-constructivist emotion theories are the assumptions that the emergence of …

Infants, like adults and many animals, move with rhythmic gestures that express motive
states and changes of emotion and mood. But the communications of babies have a special …

Abstract Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) have difficulties with imitation,
though the nature of these remains unclear. In this study, involving 28 preschoolers with …

Difficulties in emotional processing have long been regarded as a core difficulty within
anorexia nervosa. Recent research and theory have started to highlight how eating disorder …

Abstract In “The Child's Relations with Others,” Merleau-Ponty argues that certain early
experiences are jointly owned in that they are numerically single experiences that are …

Psychoanalytic Therapy with Infants and Parents provides a clear guide to clinical
psychoanalytic work with distressed babies and unhappy parents, a numerous clinical group …

Publisher Summary The first interactions that infants engage in are dyadic in nature. During
these interactions, infants as young as one week monitor people's gazes and exchange …