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September 5, 2025Developmental PsychologyOpen Access

Social connectedness without eye contact: 18- but not 9-month-olds use proximal touch to infer third-party joint attention during observational learning.

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MTMaleen ThieleMax Planck Society GGGustaf GredebäckUppsala University DHDaniel B. M. HaunMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

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Observational analysis reveals how 18-month-olds utilize proximal touch for joint attention, suggesting different social learning mechanisms than 9-month-olds.

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Eighteen-month-olds show greater object encoding when social connectedness is present through eye contact and proximal touch.
In contrast, 9-month-olds only benefit from eye contact, indicating a developmental difference in using social cues.
The study involves German infants in a task assessing how different types of social connectedness affect memory for objects.
These findings highlight the flexibility of joint attention as an important mechanism for social learning in diverse environments.

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Thiele et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68bb5f3e6d6d5674bcd03361 https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0002055

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Observational analysis reveals how 18-month-olds utilize proximal touch for joint attention, suggesting different social learning mechanisms than 9-month-olds.

Social connectedness without eye contact: 18- but not 9-month-olds use proximal touch to infer third-party joint attention during observational learning.

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Social connectedness without eye contact: 18- but not 9-month-olds use proximal touch to infer third-party joint attention during observational learning.

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