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Intended Sensitive and Harsh Caregiving Responses to Infant Crying: The Role of Cry Pitch and Perceived Urgency in an Adult Twin Sample
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Out, Dorothee; Pieper, Suzanne; Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian J.; Zeskind, Philip Sanford; van IJzendoorn, Marinus H. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2010
Objective: To examine the underlying mechanisms of adults' intended caregiving responses to cry sounds in a behavioral genetic design and to investigate the role of cry pitch and perceived urgency in sensitive and harsh caregiving responses. Methods: The sample consisted of 184 adult twin pairs (18-69 years), including males and females, parents…
Descriptors: Research Design, Twins, Child Rearing, Crying
Adults' Perceptions of Experimental Modifications of Durations of Pauses and Expiratory Sounds in Infant Crying.
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Zeskind, Philip Sanford; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1992
College students listened to recordings of infant cries that varied in the duration of crying sounds and of pauses between crying sounds. Results indicated that the shorter the duration of the pause the more informative, arousing, and aversive was the cry in the judgment of the students. (BC)
Descriptors: Adult Child Relationship, Auditory Perception, College Students, Crying
Can Newborns Discriminate between Their Own Cry and the Cry of Another Newborn Infant?
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Dondi, Marco; Simion, Francesca; Caltran, Giovanna – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Two experiments tested whether newborns could discriminate their own and another newborn's cry. Results indicated that awake newborns expressed facial distress more frequently and longer to another newborn's cry than to their own. Sucking decreased significantly between pretest phase and first minute of another infant's cry. Asleep infants'…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Crying, Discrimination Learning, Emotional Response
Research and Clinical Center for Child Development Annual Report, 1998-1999. No. 22.
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Chen, Shing-Jen, Ed.; Furutsuka, Takashi, Ed.; Shirotani, Yukari, Ed. – 2000
This annual report presents several articles related to the work of the Clinical Center for Child Development at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan. The articles are: (1) "Maternal Speech and Behavior during Mother-Infant Play: Comparison between the United States and Japan" (Sueko Toda, Marc H. Bornstein, and Hiroshi Azuma); (2)…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Auditory Perception, Bilingualism, Caregiver Speech