title: Social cognition: Evolutionary history of emotional engagements with infants.
abstract: A new mother and baby gaze into each other's eyes, mutually engaging with facial expressions, kisses and greetings. A new study shows that this behaviour is not uniquely human: such intersubjective interactions may have an evolutionary history of at least 30 million years.
authors.affiliation: Centre for the Study of Emotion, Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth, UK. kim.bard@port.ac.uk
authors.forename: Kim A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Bard
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008253:Macaca mulatta / Q000523:psychology*; D009633:Nonverbal Communication; D012919:Social Behavior