Traditional looking-time paradigms are often used to assess infants' attention to sociocognitive phenomena, but the link between these laboratory scenarios and real-world interactions is unclear. The current study investigated hypothesized relations between traditional social-cognitive looking-time paradigms and their real-world counterparts in caregiver–infant social interaction. Seventy-five 10- to 12-month-old infants participated in a structured play session with their caregiver, as well as a traditional looking-time paradigm targeting intentional action. Infants' ability to quickly parse intentional displays correlated with several key qualities of their everyday interactions. In particular, caregiver and infant interaction quality, maternal supportiveness, caregiver and infant joint engagement skill, and social attentiveness in infants correlated with faster habituation to looking-time displays. These results support a linkage between social-cognitive looking-time laboratory paradigms and more naturalistic partner interaction, at this key age. The data provide external validation for the large body of social-cognitive findings emerging from laboratory looking-time paradigms and contribute to a growing literature tracking the developmental trajectory of infants' understanding of people during the first 2 years.

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婴儿意图理解的社会背景

传统的注视时间范式通常用于评估婴儿对社会认知现象的关注，但这些实验室场景与现实世界互动之间的联系尚不清楚。目前的研究调查了传统社会认知观看时间范式与其现实世界中照料者-婴儿社交互动中的对应关系之间的假设关系。75 名 10 至 12 个月大的婴儿与他们的照顾者一起参与了结构化的游戏环节，以及针对有意行动的传统观看时间范式。婴儿快速解析有意展示的能力与他们日常互动的几个关键品质相关。特别是看护者和婴儿的互动质量、母亲的支持、看护者和婴儿的联合参与技能、婴儿的社交注意力与更快地习惯观看时间显示相关。在这个关键年龄，这些结果支持社会认知观察时间实验室范式与更自然的合作伙伴互动之间的联系。这些数据为实验室观察时间范式中出现的大量社会认知发现提供了外部验证，并有助于越来越多的文献追踪婴儿在最初 2 年内对人的理解的发展轨迹。