Embodied Intersubjective Engagement in Mother-infant Tactile Communication: A cross-cultural study of Japanese and Scottish mother-infant behaviours during infant pick-up.

This study examines the early development of cultural differences in a simple, embodied and intersubjective engagement between mothers putting down, picking up, and carrying their infants between Japan and Scotland. Eleven Japanese and 10 Scottish mothers with their 6- and then 9-month-old infants p...

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Main Authors: Koichi eNegayama, Jonathan T. Delafield-Butt, Keiko eMomose, Konomi eIshijima, Noriko eKawahara, Erin eLux, Andrew eMurphy, Kaliarntas eKonstantinos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00066/full