The current study tested whether the purely amodal cue of contingency elicits orientation following behavior in 8-month-old infants. We presented 8-month-old infants with automated objects without human features that did or did not react contingently to the infants' fixations recorded by an eye tracker. We found that an object's occasional…

This study investigates the extent to which analytic power can be increased through the inclusion of siblings in a data set and the concomitant use of random coefficient multilevel models. Analyses of real-world data regarding the predictors of young adult alcohol use illustrate how parallel single-level analyses of a 1-child-per-family data set…