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Peer reviewedLeger, Daniel W.; And Others – Child Development, 1996
Parents, and adults inexperienced in child care rated intensities of infants' cries. The groups did not differ in their ratings. The cries of 6-month olds were rated more intense than 1-month olds. Amplitude and noisiness of cry predicted adult judgments of 1-year olds' cries. A measure of amplitude ratio predicted ratings of 6-month olds' cries.…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Adults, Age Differences, Crying
Peer reviewedPedersen, Frank A.; And Others – Child Development, 1996
Examined cardiac response and ratings of subjective aversiveness to recordings of unfamiliar infant cries in 60 primiparous women at 32 weeks' gestation. Mothers who prenatally rated the crying recordings as more aversive postnatally described their infants as more fussy and unpredictable. Women who showed greater cardiac acceleration to the cries…
Descriptors: Crying, Heart Rate, Infant Behavior, Infants
