Early attachment predicts emotion recognition at 6 and 11 years old

Attachment and Human Development

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 379-393

  Steele, Howard ^a   Steele, Miriam ^a   Croft, Carla ^b  

^a NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b HILLINGDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attachment; Developmental neuroscience; Emotion judgments; Emotion recognition; Facial expressions of emotion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY; DRAWING; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING STYLE; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COHORT STUDIES; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; NEUROSCIENCES; OBJECT ATTACHMENT;

EID: 56749095530     PISSN: 14616734     EISSN: 14692988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616730802461409     Document Type: Article

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