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  • Chapter 3 - The Cradle of Meaning

  • from Part I - The Beginnings of Meaning
  • L. Alan Sroufe, University of Minnesota, June Sroufe
  • Book:
    The Development and Organization of Meaning
    Published online:
    11 June 2025
    Print publication:
    26 June 2025, pp 25-34

  • Summary

    Before the infant can even engage in intentional behavior, it is embedded in a pre-existing meaning system, brought forward by parents. By caregivers responding appropriately to the meaning of infant behaviors, giving them signal value, the infant is fitted into this system. Intentionality then lets the infant experience such contingencies more directly, and this begins the process of the co-construction of meaning in relationships

  • Chapter 2 - Four Features of Meaning and Its Development

  • from Part I - The Beginnings of Meaning
  • L. Alan Sroufe, University of Minnesota, June Sroufe
  • Book:
    The Development and Organization of Meaning
    Published online:
    11 June 2025
    Print publication:
    26 June 2025, pp 12-24

  • Summary

    Four themes regarding the nature of meaning making are proposed: (1) That humans are inherently motivated to seek and find meaning, from cradle to grave; (2) Meaning making is an active process, always involving an interaction between person and event; (3) There is a dynamic, transactional relationship between meaning and experience, with past meanings impacting what is experienced and new experiences altering meaning systems; and (4) The developmental process underlying meaning making is inextricably social.