Mothers, Fathers, and Infants: The Role of Person Familiarity and Parental Involvement in Infants’ Perception of Emotion Expressions

Montague, Diane P. F.; Walker-Andrews, Arlene S.

doi:10.1111/1467-8624.00475

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“…To measure caregiving, we used Sherryl Goodman's Parental Responsibility Scale that combines two scales, the McBride and Mills Parental Responsibility Scale and the Montague and Walker-Andrews Child Care Activity Questionnaire (49,50). The measure asks the parent to designate The results are thresholdeded using Bonferroni-corrected P < 0.001, uncorrected P < 1.04 e-08.…”

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confidence: 99%

Testicular volume is inversely correlated with nurturing-related brain activity in human fathers

Mascaro

Hackett²,

Rilling

2013

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Despite the well-documented benefits afforded the children of invested fathers in modern Western societies, some fathers choose not to invest in their children. Why do some men make this choice? Life History Theory offers an explanation for variation in parental investment by positing a trade-off between mating and parenting effort, which may explain some of the observed variance in human fathers' parenting behavior. We tested this hypothesis by measuring aspects of reproductive biology related to mating effort, as well as paternal nurturing behavior and the brain activity related to it. Both plasma testosterone levels and testes volume were independently inversely correlated with paternal caregiving. In response to viewing pictures of one's own child, activity in the ventral tegmental area-a key component of the mesolimbic dopamine reward and motivation system-predicted paternal caregiving and was negatively related to testes volume. Our results suggest that the biology of human males reflects a trade-off between mating effort and parenting effort, as indexed by testicular size and nurturing-related brain function, respectively. empathy | sperm competition

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Testicular volume is inversely correlated with nurturing-related brain activity in human fathers

Mascaro

Hackett²,

Rilling

2013

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

121

102

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“…Whether an infant perceives an emotional expression and responds to it depends on the age of the infant, the expression that is being enacted, the task by which the experimenter measures perception, the definition of perception (detection, discrimination, recognition, understanding), and the context in which the expression is encountered (Walker-Andrews 1997). Infants as young as three months show intermodal matching for their mothers' happy and sad facial-vocal expressions, but not for expressions posed by a female stranger (Kahana-Kalman & Walker-Andrews 2001) Similarly, infants show intermodal matching for fathers' happy and sad facial-vocal expressions only when they have highly involved fathers (Montague & Walker-Andrews 2002). Lest one think that this is because infants are merely exposed to maternal expressions more than paternal expressions, refer to research by Dunn and colleagues (Dunn et al 1991a; that illustrates the importance of the family context and interactions in the perception of emotion by children.…”

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Constructing an understanding of mind: The development of children's social understanding within social interaction

2004

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Abstract:Theories of children's developing understanding of mind tend to emphasize either individualistic processes of theory formation, maturation, or introspection, or the process of enculturation. However, such theories must be able to account for the accumulating evidence of the role of social interaction in the development of social understanding. We propose an alternative account, according to which the development of children's social understanding occurs within triadic interaction involving the child's experience of the world as well as communicative interaction with others about their experience and beliefs (Chapman 1991;. It is through such triadic interaction that children gradually construct knowledge of the world as well as knowledge of other people. We contend that the extent and nature of the social interaction children experience will influence the development of children's social understanding. Increased opportunity to engage in cooperative social interaction and exposure to talk about mental states should facilitate the development of social understanding. We review evidence suggesting that children's understanding of mind develops gradually in the context of social interaction. Therefore, we need a theory of development in this area that accords a fundamental role to social interaction, yet does not assume that children simply adopt socially available knowledge but rather that children construct an understanding of mind within social interaction.Keywords: language; Piaget; social interaction; theories of mind; Vygotsky; Wittgenstein et al. 1998;Symons & Clark 2000), mothers' education (Cutting & Dunn 1999), and socioeconomic circumstances (Holmes et al. 1996).Furthermore, a number of studies have found correlations between language and social understanding (e.g., Cutting & Dunn 1999; de Villers 2000; Happé 1995;Jenkins & Astington 1996). In longitudinal studies, forms of family talk about mental states have been found to be related to later success on false belief tests (e.g., Brown et al. 1996;Dunn et al. 1991a;Ruffman et al. 2002). In addition, mothers who think of their children in mentalistic terms ("mindmindedness"), and therefore, presumably talk to their children about the psychological world, have children who are more advanced in understanding beliefs than are other children (Meins & Fernyhough 1999;Meins et al. 1998). Similar correlations between family interaction and the development of children's understanding of emotions have also been reported (e.g., Dunn et al. 1991b;Hooven et al. 1995;Kuebli et al. 1995;Steele et al. 1999). In a longitudinal study, Astington and Jenkins (1999) found that earlier language abilities predict later false belief performance but earlier false belief competence does not predict later language abilities, supporting the conclusion that language is important in social cognitive development.Another source of evidence that social interaction is important for the development of a mentalistic understanding comes from research with deaf children. A number o...

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“…For scoring purposes CCAQ items were aggregated into two conceptually distinct scales, father caregiving (e.g., "change baby's diapers," "bathe baby," "feed baby") and father play (e.g., "play with baby," "spend time talking with baby"). The CCAQ has good internal consistency for both mothers and fathers (Montague & Walker-Andrews, 2002).…”

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“…To assess the involvement of fathers in child care and play, mothers were asked to fill out the Child Care Activity Questionnaire (CCAQ; Montague & Walker-Andrews, 2002). The CCAQ is a 19-item scale that asks parents to detail the percentage of time (0% to 100%) that the mother, the father, and both parents jointly devote to specific child care and play activities.…”

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confidence: 99%

Infant-directed speech produced by fathers with symptoms of depression: Effects on infant associative learning in a conditioned-attention paradigm

Kaplan¹,

Sliter²,

Burgess³

2007

Infant Behavior and Development

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Infant-directed (ID) speech produced by fathers who varied in their number of self-reported symptoms of depressed was analyzed for differences its ability to promote infant voice-face associative learning. Infants of fathers with elevated scores on the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) showed significantly poorer learning than did infants of fathers with non-elevated BDI-II scores when their fathers' ID speech served as a conditioned stimulus for a face reinforcer in a conditioned-attention paradigm. Fathers with elevated BDI-II scores produced ID speech with marginally significantly lower F 0 variability than fathers with non-elevated BDI-II scores. However, F 0 -related cues were uncorrelated with infant learning. Overall, fathers' ID speech contained significantly less F 0 modulation than did mothers' ID speech. These findings show that paternal depression, like maternal depression, adversely affects infant learning in a conditioned-attention paradigm.

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Mothers, Fathers, and Infants: The Role of Person Familiarity and Parental Involvement in Infants’ Perception of Emotion Expressions

Cited by 132 publications

References 60 publications

Testicular volume is inversely correlated with nurturing-related brain activity in human fathers

Testicular volume is inversely correlated with nurturing-related brain activity in human fathers

Constructing an understanding of mind: The development of children's social understanding within social interaction

Infant-directed speech produced by fathers with symptoms of depression: Effects on infant associative learning in a conditioned-attention paradigm

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