Investigating the role of social-affective attachment processes in cradling bias: The absence of cradling bias in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Laterality

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 154-170

  Pileggi, Lea Ann ^a   Malcolm Smith, Susan ^a   Solms, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Attachment; Autism; Cradling bias

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AUTISM; CAREGIVER; CHILD; CHILD CARE; COMPLICATION; DECISION MAKING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NURSING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; STATISTICAL BIAS;

ADOLESCENT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CAREGIVERS; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR DISORDERS;

EID: 84914679102     PISSN: 1357650X     EISSN: 14640678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1357650X.2014.948449     Document Type: Article

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