Innate Inter Subjectivity Summary

Emese Nagy, the author of Innate Inter-subjectivity: Newborns’ sensitivity to Communication Disturbance, designed a study that would determine if newborns have different responses to a communication disturbance modeled by the still face situation. The period of development this study studies is infancy. The developmental domain of this study is emotional and social.
In order to qualify as a participant of the study, infants must be healthy and singleton requiring no neonatal intensive care. 90 infants were randomly assigned to either the control condition or the condition being tested. Of the total of 90 infants, 57 were being studied using the still face model between 3 and 36 hours after birth. 33 infants were observed as the control condition …show more content…
Communication begins before birth. Even when in the womb, a fetus is communicating with its mother, whether is be kicking or craving certain foods. This brings up the concept communication being an instinct behavior among humans. It raises the question: Do humans have an innate motivation to engagement in communicative behaviors with others? This is a very interesting article to read because there are not many studies involving such young infants. Using newborns in this study definitely pinpointed the age in which communicative behaviors can really begin to be observed, however these participants were so young that it is difficult to separate the newborns sensitivity to communicative disturbance and the newborns trying to meet their needs. There is no way to tell if a newborn begins to cry because of the communicative disturbance or because his diaper needs to be changed. I agree with the findings with the consideration of the difficulty of differentiating why the newborn is crying. The results from this study prove to show significance but it should be studied with multiple trials and or different groups of infants to prove the validity of the