Development from infancy is not only growing independence but growing interdependence

Evidence

In addition to the familiar claim that the road from infancy to adulthood is one of increasing (bodily) independence, we suggest that it is also one of increasing (social) interdependence, as the infant is interactively drawn into a widening circle of core configurations. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 435

Categorization

• XREF: Reverses the standard Piaget/Erikson framing of development as progressive independence; connects to attachment theory and relational selfhood literatures. — connects to: Selfhood is formed socially through others from earliest infancy — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 737; Synchronous singing and movement measurably increase cooperative contributions, even in four-year-olds. — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success: How Culture…, 526