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Peer reviewedGunnar, Megan R.; Nelson, Charles A. – Child Development, 1994
Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded from infants shown sets of familiar faces presented frequently and infrequently, and a set of novel faces presented infrequently, and correlated with infant emotional behavior and cortisol levels. Found that infants scoring higher on the normative ERP factor were more distressed during parent…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Infants, Parent Child Relationship
Direct linkAdam, Emma K.; Gunnar, Megan R.; Tanaka, Akiko – Child Development, 2004
In a middle-class sample of mothers of 2-year-olds, adult attachment classifications measured in the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) were related to maternal self-reported emotional well-being and observed parenting behavior, and the potential mediating and moderating roles of maternal emotion were tested. Mothers classified as dismissing on the…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Mothers, Depression (Psychology), Attachment Behavior
