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Individual differences in infant’s emotional resonance to a peer in distress : self-other awareness and emotion regulation. / Geangu, Elena; Benga, Oana; Stahl, Daniel et al.
In: Social Development, Vol. 20, No. 3, 08.2011, p. 450-470.Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Individual differences in infant’s emotional resonance to a peer in distress
T2 - self-other awareness and emotion regulation
AU - Geangu, Elena
AU - Benga, Oana
AU - Stahl, Daniel
AU - Striano, Tricia
PY - 2011/8
Y1 - 2011/8
N2 - In this study, relations between emotional resonance responses to another's distress, emotion regulation, and self-other discrimination were investigated in infants three-, six-, and nine-months-old. We measured the emotional reactions to the pain cry of a peer, along with the ability to regulate emotions and to discriminate between self and other body movements. We found evidence that infants do regulate their emotional resonance responses to another's distress. This relation is age specific, with younger infants using more primitive self-soothing behaviors, while in older participants attentional based strategies relate to affect sharing reactions. Only nine-month-old infants have shown self-other differentiation abilities, and these were significantly connected to their emotions in response to a peer's distress. These findings have implications for our understanding of early empathy development.
AB - In this study, relations between emotional resonance responses to another's distress, emotion regulation, and self-other discrimination were investigated in infants three-, six-, and nine-months-old. We measured the emotional reactions to the pain cry of a peer, along with the ability to regulate emotions and to discriminate between self and other body movements. We found evidence that infants do regulate their emotional resonance responses to another's distress. This relation is age specific, with younger infants using more primitive self-soothing behaviors, while in older participants attentional based strategies relate to affect sharing reactions. Only nine-month-old infants have shown self-other differentiation abilities, and these were significantly connected to their emotions in response to a peer's distress. These findings have implications for our understanding of early empathy development.
KW - empathy
KW - affect sharing
KW - emotion regulation
KW - self-other differentiation
KW - infancy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79960441070&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2010.00596.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2010.00596.x
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:79960441070
VL - 20
SP - 450
EP - 470
JO - Social Development
JF - Social Development
SN - 0961-205X
IS - 3
ER -