Kaertner, Joscha and Koester, Moritz (2024) Early social-cognitive development as a dynamic developmental system-a lifeworld approach. FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY, 15: 1399903. ISSN 1664-1078,
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Based on developmental systems and dynamic systems theories, we propose the lifeworld approach-a conceptual framework for research and a hypothesis concerning early social-cognitive development. As a framework, the lifeworld approach recognizes the social embeddedness of development and shifts the focus away from individual developmental outcomes toward the reciprocal interplay of processes within and between individuals that co-constitutes early social-cognitive development. As a hypothesis, the lifeworld approach proposes that the changing developmental system-spanning the different individuals as their subsystems-strives toward attractor states through regulation at the behavioral level, which results in both the emergence and further differentiation of developmental attainments. The lifeworld approach-as a framework and a hypothesis, including key methodological approaches to test it-is exemplified by research on infants' self-awareness, prosocial behavior and social learning. Equipped with, first, a conceptual framework grounded in a modern view on development and, second, a growing suite of methodological approaches, developmental science can advance by analyzing the mutually influential relations between intra-individual and interactional processes in order to identify key mechanisms underlying early social-cognitive development.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | TODDLERS PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TO-FACE COMMUNICATION; 1ST 3 MONTHS; INFANT IMITATION; PREVERBAL INFANTS; SIMILARITIES; PSYCHOLOGY; EMERGENCE; OBJECT; MEMORY; social-cognitive development; developmental systems; dynamic systems; lifeworld approach; self-awareness; helping; social learning |
| Subjects: | 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology |
| Divisions: | Human Sciences > Institut für Psychologie > Developmental Cognitive Psychology – Prof. Dr. Dr. Moritz Köster |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Jan 2026 14:09 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jan 2026 14:09 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/64419 |
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