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Hart, Sybil L.; Behrens, Kazuko Y. – Infancy, 2013
This study explored variation in affective and behavioral components of infants' jealousy protests during an eliciting condition in which mother and an experimenter directed differential attention exclusively toward a rival. Variation was examined in relation to child temperamental emotionality, maternal interaction style, and attachment security.…
Descriptors: Infants, Psychological Patterns, Infant Behavior, Personality
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Russell, Alan – Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 1978
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Care, Infant Behavior, Infants
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Klein, R. P.; Durfee, J. T. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1978
Descriptors: Affiliation Need, Attachment Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Individual Characteristics
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Murray, Ann D. – Psychological Bulletin, 1979
Examines two models of the compelling nature of the infant cry and its effectiveness in eliciting caregiving behavior. (MP)
Descriptors: Altruism, Attachment Behavior, Egocentrism, Infant Behavior
Cassel, Thomas Z. K.; Sander, Louis W. – 1975
This research project was designed to determine whether 1-week-old neonates would indicate biological recognition of their mothers. Biological recognition is defined as the particular configuration of sensory, kinesthetic, and motor cues and the temporal patterning of these cues which characterizes infants' exchange processes with their…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Discrimination Learning, Infant Behavior, Infants
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Leyendecker, Birgit; And Others – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1997
Examined maternal and infant behaviors, behavioral coordination, maternal response, and nonresponse in relation to security of attachment. Subjects were 40 Euro-American mothers and 39 Central American immigrant mothers studied when their infants were 4-, 8-, and 12-months-old. Found that individual differences on measures of maternal response and…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Individual Differences
Modarressi, Taghi; McCulloch, Duncan – 1973
Infant's crying may have an important mediating role in the formation of attachment behavior. The earliest vocalizations are discussed in terms of an acoustic communications model in which the baby's vocal repertoire becomes incorporated into a closed-loop, feedback system with his mother. Certain pre-lingual "signals" may be associated with those…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Attachment Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Lewis, Michael; And Others – 1974
The present series of studies was undertaken to explore intersensory processing in the very young. In the first experiment 1-, 4- and 7-month-old infants experienced simultaneously their mothers' faces and voices. The various conditions consisted of displacing the voice from the face. The results indicated that infants as young as one month of age…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Auditory Stimuli, Behavior Patterns, Identification (Psychology)
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Volker, Susanne – Infant and Child Development, 2005
Infants' differential vocal response (DVR) towards their mother and a female stranger at 3 months of age has been predominantly investigated as an index of early cognitive functioning. The present study explored the relationship between DVR and different infant and mother indicators of the developing relationship quality in a sample of 23…
Descriptors: Mothers, Home Visits, Infants, Parent Child Relationship