Relations between Women's Depressive Symptoms and Perceptions of Infant Distress Signals Varying in Pitch

Infancy

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 483-499

  Schuetze, Pamela ^a,c   Zeskind, Philip Sanford ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c BUFFALO STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 0347608257     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327078in0204_06     Document Type: Article

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