I Orientations and Beginnings.- 1. In the Broad Valley: An Integrative Look at Social Referencing.- 2. A Critical Review of Social Referencing in Infancy.- II. Meaning and Understanding.- 3. Social Referencing, Intentional Communication, and the Interfacing of Minds in Infancy.- 4. Social Referencing Research: Uncertainty, Self, and the Search for Meaning.- 5. A Phenomenological Analysis of Social Referencing.- 6. The Links between Imitation and Social Referencing.- III. Cognition and Information Processing.- 7. Social Referencing as a Learned Process.- 8. Social Cognitive Theory of Social Referencing.- 9. Control, Social Referencing, and the Infant's Appraisal of Threat.- 10. Social Referencing and Conformity.- 11. Social Referencing and Theories of Status and Social Interaction.- IV. Relationships and Interaction.- 12. Indirect and Direct Effects and Family Interaction.- 13. Infants' Instrumental Social Interaction with Adults.- 14. A Consideration of Social Referencing in the Context of Attachment Theory and Research.- V. Connections and Directions.- 15. What Do We Know and Where Shall We Go?: Conceptual and Research Directions in Social Referencing.- Author Index.