Happy faces are habituated more slowly by infants of depressed mothers

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 131-135

  Hernandez Reif, Maria ^a   Field, Tiffany ^a   Diego, Miguel ^a   Vera, Yanexy ^a   Pickens, Jeff ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ST THOMAS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Depressed mothers; Facial expression; Habituation; Infants

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIDEOTAPE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DEPRESSION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; INFANT; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PATIENT SELECTION; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES;

EID: 30044440524     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2005.07.003     Document Type: Article

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