Social Development How does the child develop into a social animal?  Connectedness of social development with emotional and cognitive development  Importance of cognitions for empathy  The child as imbedded in a network of people and activities

Social Development in Infancy Studying social-emotional behavior  Mother-infant interaction  The still-face procedure  Desynchronized interaction  Attachment – The strange situation  Securely attached (Type B)  Insecurely attached  Avoidant (Type A)  Ambivalent (Type C)  Disorganized (Type D)  Social referencing

Social Development in Infancy The development of relationships  Relationships are characterized as having goals, a diversity of different interactions, and reciprocity (Hinde, 1976)  The importance of cognition  Knowledge of self and others  Early knowledge of self  The growth of consciousness

The Development of Social Cognition Theory of mind research  A framework for predicting and explaining what people think and do  The understanding of beliefs  The investigation of false-beliefs  The “Maxi” task (Wimmer & Perner, 1983)

The Development of Social Cognition The development of intentionality  Intentions and goal attribution Gergely et al., 1995

The Development of Social Cognition The development of intentionality, con’t  Intentions and goal attribution  Goal-directed behavior and social learning