The assessment of child-rearing beliefs and behavior has predominantly focused on
qualities and characteristics believed to reflect consistent, enduring qualities of parenting …

Social phobia is an extremely disruptive and distressing anxiety disorder that can impact on
many areas of an individual's life. Yet, despite the fact that lifetime prevalence rates are …

A microanalysis of 4-month mother-infant face-to-face communication revealed a fine-
grained specification of communication processes that predicted 12-month insecure …

Although theories of early social development emphasize the advantage of mother-infant
rhythmic coupling and bidirectional coordination, empirical demonstrations remain sparse …

The Classic Edition of Heidi Keller's Cultures of Infancy, first published in 2007, includes a
new introduction by the author, which describes for readers the original context of her work …

Principles of a dynamic, dyadic systems view of mother–infant face-to-face communication,
which considers self-and interactive processes in relation to one another, were tested. The …

In this chapter the author discusses separation and relatedness theories of personality
development as well as the few theorists who emphasize the parallel development of both …

This chapter develops an ecologically valid but standardized setting using an infant
simulator with interactive features, the Leiden Infant Simulator Sensitivity Assessment …

Why do some infants develop secure attachments to their primary caregivers whereas others
establish insecure relationships? That is the central question to be addressed in this …

The United States is entering a time of unprecedented ethnic diversity, one which
Hernandez (1997, p. 159) calls an era of “revolutionary demographic transformations... in …