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- Age range: 0 to 3 months
- Developmental pillar:
- Physical and Brain Development
- Social and Emotional Development
- Learning and Cognitive Development
- Communication and Language Development
- Physical and Brain Development: How children develop
- Social and Emotional Development: How children feel and connect
- Learning and Cognitive Development: How children think and learn
- Communication and Language Development: How children communicate
At birth, infants begin to show basic emotional behaviors, including interest. Interest expressions can include wide eyes, focused attention to something, and eyebrow movements or furrowing. Most babies show interest expressions more often than any other expression over the first 9 months of life.
References
- Izard, C. E., Fantauzzo, C. A., Castle, J. M., Haynes, O. M., Rayias, M. F. & Putnam, P. H. (1995). The ontogeny and significance of infants' facial expressions in the first 9 months of life. Developmental Psychology, 31(6), 997