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Moore, Ginger A.; Powers, Christopher J.; Bass, Anneliese J.; Cohn, Jeffrey F.; Propper, Cathi B.; Allen, Nicholas B.; Lewinsohn, Peter M. – Infancy, 2013
The study of dyadic interaction plays a major role in infancy research. To advance conceptually informed measurement of dyadic interaction and integration across studies, we examined factor structure of individual parents' and infants' measures and dyadic measures from face-to-face interactions in two samples of 6-month-old infants and…
Descriptors: Infants, Parent Child Relationship, Mothers, Fathers
Stenberg, Gunilla – Infancy, 2012
Three laboratory experiments on social referencing examined whether infants' tendencies to look at and use positive information from the experimenter could be interpreted from a perspective of novelty or expertise. In Study 1, novelty was manipulated. Forty-eight 12-month-old infants participated. In a between-subject design, a more novel or a…
Descriptors: Infants, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Expertise, Familiarity
Marsh, Heidi L.; Stavropoulos, Jennifer; Nienhuis, Tom; Legerstee, Maria – Infancy, 2010
Behne, Carpenter, Call, and Tomasello (2005) showed that 9- to 18-month-olds, but not 6-month-olds, differentiated between people who were unwilling and unable to share toys. As the outcome of the two tasks is the same (i.e., the toy is not shared), the infants must respond to the different goals of the actor. However, visual habituation paradigms…
Descriptors: Infants, Infant Behavior, Toys, Age Differences
Grossmann, Tobias – Infancy, 2013
It has long been thought that the prefrontal cortex, as the seat of most higher brain functions, is functionally silent during most of infancy. This review highlights recent work concerned with the precise mapping (localization) of brain activation in human infants, providing evidence that prefrontal cortex exhibits functional activation much…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Infants, Neurological Organization, Spectroscopy
Bernier, Annie; Jarry-Boileau, Veronique; Tarabulsy, George M.; Miljkovitch, Raphaele – Infancy, 2010
The aim of this study was to investigate the relations between pregnancy and childbirth factors and subsequent quality of maternal interactive behavior in a sample of 116 full-term infants and their mothers. Mothers reported on the conditions of childbirth when infants were 6-8 months of age, and their interactive behavior was observed during a…
Descriptors: Mothers, Pregnancy, Infants, Birth
Kitamura, Christine; Lam, Christa – Infancy, 2009
This study examined the developmental course of infants' attentional preferences for 3 types of infant-directed affective intent, which have been shown to be commonly used at particular ages in the first year of life. Specifically, Kitamura and Burnham (2003) found mothers' tone of voice in infant-directed speech is most comforting between birth…
Descriptors: Mothers, Infants, Child Development, Developmental Stages
Martin, Nicole Gendler; Witherington, David C.; Edwards, Alison – Infancy, 2008
This study examined the emergence of affect specificity in infancy. In this study, infants received verbal and facial signals of 2 different, negatively valenced emotions (fear and sadness) as well as neutral affect via a television monitor to determine if they could make qualitative distinctions among emotions of the same valence. Twenty 12- to…
Descriptors: Infants, Verbal Communication, Nonverbal Communication, Cues
Jahromi, Laudan B.; Stifter, Cynthia A. – Infancy, 2007
This study investigates individual differences in the contribution of specific maternal regulatory behaviors to the mother-infant dyad's regulation of infant distress response. Additionally, we examined the stability of infants' stress responses and the stability of specific maternal soothing behaviors. The sample included 128 mother-infant dyads…
Descriptors: Mothers, Crying, Infants, Parent Child Relationship
Willoughby, Michael; Greenberg, Mark; Blair, Clancy; Stifter, Cynthia – Infancy, 2007
Between 400,000 and 800,000 infants are born in the United States each year to women who smoked cigarettes during their pregnancy. Whereas the physical health consequences to infants of prenatal exposure to smoking are well established, the early neurobehavioral consequences are less well understood. This study investigated the neurobehavioral…
Descriptors: Smoking, Physical Health, Pregnancy, Infants
Broth, Michelle Robbins; Goodman, Sherryl H.; Hall, Christine; Raynor, Lynne Catherine – Infancy, 2004
The inadequate parenting associated with mothers' depression may be related to mothers' problems in interpreting infants' emotional expressions. The relations between depressed and well mothers' accuracy at interpreting babies' facial expressions and the quality of the mothers' interactions with their infants were examined. In partial support of…
Descriptors: Mothers, Child Rearing, Infants, Interaction
Aksan, Nazan; Kochanska, Grazyna – Infancy, 2004
We examined 7-month-old infants' responses to 6 joy-eliciting episodes. Three episodes included and 3 did not include a major social-interactive component. Confirmatory factor analysis of infants' joy reactions in these episodes revealed that a 2-factor model significantly improved the fit over a single-factor solution. Those 2 factors represented…
Descriptors: Infants, Factor Analysis, Psychological Patterns, Emotional Response
Leerkes, Esther M.; Burney, Regan V. – Infancy, 2007
Predictors of prenatal and postnatal parenting efficacy were examined in a sample of 115 primiparous mothers and 73 fathers in an effort to examine the association between preexisting parental characteristics and prenatal efficacy and the association between prenatal characteristics and postnatal efficacy when aspects of the current parenting…
Descriptors: Mothers, Child Rearing, Fathers, Predictor Variables
Hart, Sybil L.; Carrington, Heather A.; Tronick, E. Z.; Carroll, Sebrina R. – Infancy, 2004
To characterize infant reactions to jealousy evocation, 94 6-month-olds and their mothers were videotaped in an episode where the mothers directed positive attention toward a lifelike doll, and in 2 contrasting interactions: face-to-face play and a still-face perturbation. Cross-context comparisons of affects and behaviors revealed that jealousy…
Descriptors: Interests, Play, Mothers, Infants
Forbes, Erika E.; Cohn, Jeffrey F.; Allen, Nicholas B.; Lewinsohn, Peter M. – Infancy, 2004
Fifty families participated in mother-infant and father-infant still-face interaction at infant ages 3 and 6 months as part of a study of affect in early parent-infant relationships. Infants' positive and negative affect and parents' positive affect and physical play were coded from videotapes. Consistent with previous research, during the normal…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Play, Mothers, Infants