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<jats:p> The comment discusses the common ground and differences of the contribution of Walle, Reschke, and Knothe (2017), as well as that of Clément and Dukes (2017) in their efforts to conceptually connect an important concept from infancy research, namely that of social referencing, with an important one from emotion research on adults, that of social appraisal. The distinction between social referencing and affective observation under the generic concept of social appraisal could be worthwhile for differentiating implicit and explicit impacts of a model’s behavior on a child’s emotional development. </jats:p>