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Helfinstein, Sarah M.; Fox, Nathan A.; Pine, Daniel S. – Developmental Psychology, 2012
Behavioral inhibition is a temperament characterized in infancy and early childhood by a tendency to withdraw from novel or unfamiliar stimuli. Children exhibiting this disposition, relative to children with other dispositions, are more socially reticent, less likely to initiate interaction with peers, and more likely to develop anxiety over time.…
Descriptors: Fear, Inhibition, Cues, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Gleason, Mary Margaret; Fox, Nathan A.; Drury, Stacy; Smyke, Anna; Egger, Helen L.; Nelson, Charles A., III; Gregas, Matthew C.; Zeanah, Charles H. – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2011
Objective: This study examined the validity of criteria for indiscriminately social/disinhibited and emotionally withdrawn/inhibited reactive attachment disorder (RAD). Method: As part of a longitudinal intervention trial of previously institutionalized children, caregiver interviews and direct observational measurements provided continuous and…
Descriptors: Mental Disorders, Attachment Behavior, Evidence, Criteria
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Fox, Nathan A. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2010
Behavioral inhibition (BI) is a temperament that can be identified early in childhood. Children with BI are socially reticent, withdraw from engaging unfamiliar peers, and often have problems in forming friendships. They are also at risk for developing anxiety disorders as they get older. There is, however, as much discontinuity as continuity in…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Inhibition, Anxiety Disorders, Withdrawal (Psychology)
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Marshall, Peter J.; Reeb, Bethany C.; Fox, Nathan A. – Developmental Science, 2009
Behavioral reactivity to novel stimuli in the first half-year of life has been identified as a key aspect of early temperament and a significant precursor of approach and withdrawal tendencies to novelty in later infancy and early childhood. The current study examines the neural signatures of reactivity to novel auditory stimuli in 9-month-old…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Auditory Stimuli, Infants, Withdrawal (Psychology)
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Hane, Amie Ashley; Cheah, Charissa; Rubin, Kenneth H.; Fox, Nathan A. – Social Development, 2008
The moderating effect of maternal behavior in the relations between social reticence and shyness in preschool and subsequent social withdrawal was investigated. Eighty children (47 females) were judged for degree of social reticence during play with unfamiliar peers at the age of four and mothers completed the Colorado child temperament inventory…
Descriptors: Shyness, Play, Mothers, Preschool Children
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Fox, Nathan A.; And Others – Child Development, 1995
Observed 4-year-olds during interaction tasks, and 2-weeks later recorded brain wave functions while subject attended to a visual stimulus. Found that children who displayed social competence exhibited greater relative left frontal activation than children displaying social withdrawal during the play session, who exhibited greater relative right…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Electroencephalography, Interpersonal Competence, Neuropsychology