Gunilla Stenberg

Researcher

Email: gunilla.stenberg@psyk.uu.se
Phone: +46 18 471 2122
Fax: +46 18 471 2400

Research Interests
Aspects of social and emotional functioning
•social referencing
•emotion regulation
•compliance

The social referencing process and the impact of individual differences on social referencing interactions including:
•infant and child temperament
•caregiver sensitivity

Cognitive development

Social communication in children who are visually impaired and have additional disabilities

Gunilla Stenberg

Current Research

Stenberg, G.(2011).Infant looking preferences in social referencing studies: A novelty effect or not? (Submitted for publication.)

Schmitow, Stenberg, Billard, & von Hofsten. (2010). Measuring gaze direction with a head-mounted camera. (Submitted for publication.)

Schmitow, C. & Stenberg, G. (2010). Looking behavior in the face of ambiguity in 10- and 14-month-old infants. (Submitted for publication.)

Stenberg. G. (2011). Do 12-month-old infants trust a competent adult? (Manuscript for submission.)

Stenberg. G. (2011). The importance of adult contingent responding and infant social referencing. (Manuscript for submission.)

 

Selected Publications

Stenberg, G. (2009). Selectivity in infant social referencing. Infancy, 14(4), 457-473.

Stenberg, G. & Hagekull, B. (2007). Infant looking behavior in ambiguous situations: Social referencing or attachment behavior? Infancy, 11(2), 111-129.

Stenberg, G. (2003). Effects of maternal inattentiveness on infant social referencing. Infant and Child Development, 12, 399-419.

Stenberg, G. (1998). Social Referencing in Infancy. Published Doctoral Dissertation: Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Social Sciences 80:ISBN 91-554-4346-X, Uppsala University, Uppsala.

Stenberg, G., & Hagekull, B. (1997). Social referencing and mood modification in 1-year-olds. Infant Behavior and Development, 20, 209-217.

Hagekull, B., Stenberg, G., & Bohlin, G. (1993). Infant-mother social referencing interactions: Description and antecedents in maternal sensitivity and infant irritability. Early Development and Parenting, 2, 183-191.