Human Development, Vol. 32, No. 3/4 (May-June 1989), pp. 129-136 (8 pages) Habituation, the decrement in attention an infant pays to a familiar stimulus, is believed to signify, at least in part, the ...

Social information processing theory has been posited as a description of how mental operations affect behavioral responding in social situations. Arsenio and Lemerise (this issue) proposed that ...