Abstract
Ross, HILDY S., and GOLDMAN, BARBARA DAVIS. Infants' Sociability toward Strangers. CHmD DEVELOPMENT, 1977, 48, 638-642. 12-month-old infants were given an opportunity to approach female, adult strangers who played either active or passive roles in the interaction. On 4-min trials the active strangers talked, gestured, and offered a series of toys to the infants. The passive strangers sat behind the same toys but only looked and smiled at the infants. Infants in the active-stranger group spent reliably less time near their mothers and fussed and cried less; they spent more time near the strangers, looked at them longer, and touched them more often. Further description of the infants' interaction with the active strangers indicated that they frequently watched the strangers manipulate the toys, touched toys the strangers held, exchanged toys, imitated the strangers, and devised and played games with them. The infants were highly sociable and infant-stranger interaction was reciprocal. An additional contrast between infants who encountered either the same or different strangers on each trial failed to provide evidence that the strangers' familiarity influenced the infants' reactions to them.
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