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Peer reviewedFox, Nathan A. – New Directions for Child Development, 1989
Argues that there are important individual differences in infant responses to frustrating situations. These different patterns of behavior have important implications for subsequent responses to challenge. Also argues that these different coping responses are in part temperamentally based and that individual differences in temperament help us to…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Anger, Individual Differences, Infant Behavior
Peer reviewedField, Tiffany – New Directions for Child Development, 1989
Reports that, even though young infants can discriminate among different facial expressions, there are individual differences in infants' expressivity and ability to produce and discriminate facial expressions. (PCB)
Descriptors: Child Development, Facial Expressions, Individual Differences, Infant Behavior
Peer reviewedLewis, Michael; And Others – New Directions for Child Development, 1989
Reports a study of 110 newborn infants' responses to the heelstick procedure to draw blood samples, and of the responses of 40 of those infants to their first inoculations at two months of age. Discusses measures of distress; stability of reactivity across time; and individual differences and health of the infant as factors in reactivity. (NH)
Descriptors: Crying, Facial Expressions, Health, Individual Differences
Peer reviewedGunnar, Megan R. – New Directions for Child Development, 1989
Reviews research on the functioning of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical system in normal infants. Special attention is paid to the environmental stimuli and psychological processes regulating the stress responses of this system. (NH)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Individual Differences, Infant Behavior, Infants
