The examples given in this article highlight the potential resources available in human groups for making this a better world. (Author/RK)

This study investigated whether infants could imitate other infants' actions with toys. A total of 40 infants, 14 months of age, were videotaped while playing with specifically designed toys. Half of the babies watched another infant demonstrate target actions with five toys. After a 5-minute delay, experimental subjects were given the toys to…

Facial expressions produced by an infant during the first 8 weeks of life were observed and recorded by the infant's mother, who was trained in several anatomically based systems for coding facial expressions. Data records included diary entries and videotape recordings. Instances of facial expression patterns currently considered to be…

Presents a specific procedure for obtaining reliable pupillometric measurements from infants and young children and adults. Discussion of the data and previous studies indicate that pupillometry holds promise as an objective measure of visual sensitivity for infants and young children. (Author/SDH)

This study tested Salk's hypothesis that the human fetus is prenatally imprinted to the repetitive intermittent sound of the maternal heartbeat. The prediction that neonates would quiet most to their own mother's heart rate compared with the unfamiliar heart rate was not supported. (Author/CS)

More babies of very young mothers (under age 16) die, are medically at risk, and have developmental and educational difficulties than children of older, but still relatively young mothers. Because of the etiology of adolescent pregnancy, the young mother is unlikely to seek comprehensive prenatal care at the first realization of pregnancy. In…

This paper reports on a 3-month longitudinal study comparing the crying behavior of a group of babies delivered by the "nonviolent" Leboyer method with a control group delivered by traditional methods. Subjects were 24 white, middle class infants delivered by minimally medicated, multiparous and primiparous mothers. Fourteen newborns…

Trace conditioning was evaluated in newborn infants by measurements of heart rate responses to a conditioned stimulus in anticipation of or in absence of the unconditioned stimulus. Data suggest females have higher levels of heart rate variability than males, which parallels their greater conditionability. (GO)

Presents four studies designed to explore the ability of 6- to 9-month-old infants to differentiate objects on the basis of configuration or structure and to recognize a particular configuration after varying experiences with it. It was found that 9-month-olds but not 6-month-olds were capable of recognizing the invariant form of objects.…

This study describes mother-child interactions that occurred between mothers and their 21-month-old children in a semi-structured laboratory setting. The subjects were the children of employed and not employed mothers selected according to study maternal employment criteria. (MP)

Intercorrelations among Uzgiris and Hunt's scales for 2 samples of infants were subjected to cluster analysis and factor analysis. The results of these procedures were similar for both samples. Three clusters from the first analysis resembling 3 factors from the second. The findings were also consistent with Uzgiris and Hunt's observations on the…

Reviews recent empirical findings toward three cognitive developmental perspectives: the fears of infancy, the discontinuous quality of stages in cognitive functioning, and the capacity for resilience in cognitive development. (DEP)

Two experiments with 18-week-old infants employed an interference paradigm to study infant visual memory for faces. (Author/JMB)