A Consideration of Social Referencing in the Context of Attachment Theory and Research

Abstract

[discusses] social referencing phenomena as an aspect of interaction between infant and mother / consider the fit between attachment theory and certain of the concepts of social referencing in more general terms /// infant-mother attachment research and social referencing / relevant aspects of attachment theory [feeling and emotion, components of a relationship, working models of attachment figure(s) and of self, perspective taking, communication, and mutually agreed plans] (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2002 APA, all rights reserved)from the chapter