New evidence for the social embeddedness of infants' early triangular capacities

Family Process

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 445-463

  McHale, James ^a,f   Fivaz Depeursinge, Elisabeth ^b   Dickstein, Susan ^c   Robertson, Janet ^d   Daley, Matthew ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Antioch University   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^f Family Study Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Coparenting; Infants; Triangular relationships

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PARENT RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; UNITED STATES; VIDEORECORDING;

ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTING; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 55949124537     PISSN: 00147370     EISSN: 15455300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2008.00265.x     Document Type: Article

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