AUTHOR=Leavens David A. , Sansone Jo , Burfield Anna , Lightfoot Sian , O’Hara Stefanie , Todd Brenda K. TITLE=Putting the “Joy” in joint attention: affective-gestural synchrony by parents who point for their babies JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=5 YEAR=2014 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00879 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00879 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=
Despite a growing body of work examining the expression of infants’ positive emotion in joint attention contexts, few studies have examined the moment-by-moment dynamics of emotional signaling by adults interacting with babies in these contexts. We invited 73 parents of infants (three fathers) to our laboratory, comprising parent-infant dyads with babies at 6 (