A study that questioned earlier findings
Places and Postures
Lana B. Karasik, Catherine S. Tamis‐LeMonda, Karen E. Adolph, Marc H. Bornstein · 2015 · Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
- Children
- About 70 babies
- Where
- Argentina, Cameroon, Italy, Kenya, South Korea and the United States
- Ages
- 5 months
- How
- Researchers filmed babies at home for an hour
- What it found
- At 5 months, about 1 in 3 babies sat on their own at least briefly, from none in Italy and about 1 in 6 in the United States to 11 of 12 in Cameroon. Babies in Kenya and Cameroon, who were often sat on the ground or furniture with little support, sat alone most.
- Limits
- Only 12 babies per country, filmed for one hour.