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What do babies know about themselves? When do they begin to know that they have a “self”—that they are separate from the people and things that surround them? We have discussed the challenges that researchers who study infants face. Infants cannot tell us what they perceive, think, or feel. Instead, researchers must devise ways of inferring infants’ states, feelings, and thoughts. As you might imagine, this makes it very challenging to study infants’ conceptions of self, as well as their awareness and understanding of themselves.