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Cohn, Jeffrey F. – 1987
This study was designed to investigate whether depressed mothers would show a predominantly negative affect or fail to provide a positive frame of experience for their babies. Two field studies of depressed mothers and their infants were conducted. A subgroup of 13 subjects and their babies from a larger project conducted in Cambridge…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Depression (Psychology), Emotional Development, Emotional Experience
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Moore, Ginger A.; Cohn, Jeffrey F.; Campbell, Susan B. – Developmental Psychology, 2001
Investigated stability and change in infant affective responses to still-face interaction, impact of maternal depression, and whether infant responses predicted toddler problem behaviors. Found stable individual differences in gazing away and rates of negative affect. Gazing away increased over time. Mothers' current depressive symptoms and…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Problems, Emotional Response, Eye Movements
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Forbes, Erika E.; Cohn, Jeffrey F.; Allen, Nicholas B.; Lewinsohn, Peter M. – Infancy, 2004
Fifty families participated in mother-infant and father-infant still-face interaction at infant ages 3 and 6 months as part of a study of affect in early parent-infant relationships. Infants' positive and negative affect and parents' positive affect and physical play were coded from videotapes. Consistent with previous research, during the normal…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Play, Mothers, Infants