Mutual Joy: The Critical Role of Shared Positive Emotions in the Development of Communication
Why this work is in the frame
A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The mutual enjoyment infants and caregivers experience when interacting with each other forms the foundation for human forms of communication, which then makes human languages and thinking possible. We explore the role of emotions and mutually joyful interaction in structuring the relationships in which communication emerges. Understanding communicative development is facilitated by reflecting on the social and emotional cradle infants experience consisting of the shared enjoyment in interaction in which infants and their caregivers engage. We build on work suggesting that enjoyable interaction with others becomes a goal in itself, and infants learn new ways to achieve this goal using their own actions such as clowning as well as using objects to engage others’ attention. This interaction plays a role first in the emergence of gestures, and then language, which is crucial in making human forms of thinking possible. Furthermore, this enjoyment of interacting with others is also central to the development of prosocial and moral action.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it