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ArticleHuman development2020

Making Sense of Infants' Differential Responses to Incongruity.

Gina C Mireault, Vasudevi Reddy

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Article in Human development, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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2 authors.

Gina C MireaultNorthern Vermont University-Johnson, Johnson, VT, USA.
Vasudevi ReddyUniversity of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, England, UK.

Funding

VOLATILE SIGNALING IN PHARBITIS NILP20RR016462 · NCRR · UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT &ST AGRIC COLLEGE · PI KIRSHENBAUM, ARI PHILLIP · 2001 to 2011
$31.1M
Social referencing and the influence of parental affect on non-ambulatory infantsR15HD071935 · NICHD · NORTHERN VERMONT UNIVERSITY-JOHNSON · PI MIREAULT, GINA · 2012 to 2012
$300k
NCRR NIH HHS P20 RR016462NICHD NIH HHS R15 HD071935
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Infants show strikingly different reactions to incongruity: looking (Baillargeon, 1998) or smiling (Mireault & Reddy, 2016). The former occurs in response to magical events and the latter to humorous events. We argue that these reactions depend largely on the respective experimental methodologies employed, including the popular Violation of Expectation (VOE) paradigm. Although both types of studies involve infants' reactions to incongruity, their literatures have yet to confront each other and researchers in each domain are drawing strikingly different conclusions regarding infants' understanding of the world. Here, we argue that infants are sensitive to and constrained by several contextual differences in the methodologies employed by incongruity researchers that afford one or the other reaction. We apply De Jaegher & Di Paolo's (2007) Participatory Sense Making framework to further understand what infants are sensitive to in these paradigms. Understanding infants' reactions to incongruity (i.e., VOE) is necessary to clear up claims regarding the sophisticatication of their knowledge of physical and social phenomena. Attention to several simple methodological details is recommended.

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cognitive developmentemotional developmentIncongruityinfancylaughterlooking timesense-makingViolation of Expectation

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