{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Bradley BS"],"funding":["British Academy","Charles Sturt University"],"pagination":["385"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC5352679"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["8"],"pubmed_abstract":["Infant sociability is generally conceived in terms of dyadic capacities and behaviors. Recently, quantitative evidence has been published to support arguments that infants achieve a criterion for groupness: the capacity to interact simultaneously with two others. Such studies equate this capacity with alternating dyadic acts to the two other members of an interacting trio. Here we propose a stricter threefold criterion for infant groupness, of which the crux is whether the social behavior of an infant at time B is shown to be influenced by what two or more group-members were previously doing at time A. We test the viability of this conceptualization: (a) through its justification of the novel laboratory procedure of studying infant sociability in infant-peer quartets (rather than trios); a"],"journal":["Frontiers in psychology"],"pubmed_title":["Groupness in Preverbal Infants: Proof of Concept."],"pmcid":["PMC5352679"],"funding_grant_id":["A541-104-20295","2008-97469"],"pubmed_authors":["Smithson M","Bradley BS"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Groupness in Preverbal Infants: Proof of Concept.","description":"Infant sociability is generally conceived in terms of dyadic capacities and behaviors. Recently, quantitative evidence has been published to support arguments that infants achieve a criterion for groupness: the capacity to interact simultaneously with two others. Such studies equate this capacity with alternating dyadic acts to the two other members of an interacting trio. Here we propose a stricter threefold criterion for infant groupness, of which the crux is whether the social behavior of an infant at time B is shown to be influenced by what two or more group-members were previously doing at time A. We test the viability of this conceptualization: (a) through its justification of the novel laboratory procedure of studying infant sociability in infant-peer quartets (rather than trios); a","dates":{"release":"2017-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2017","modification":"2025-04-26T18:54:46.942Z","creation":"2019-03-27T02:38:44Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC5352679","cross_references":{"pubmed":["28360876"],"doi":["10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00385"]}}