Parental negative emotions are related to behavioral and pupillary correlates of infants’ attention to facial expressions of emotion

Aktar, Evin; Mandell, Dorothy J.; Vente, Wieke de; Majdandžić, Mirjana; Oort, Frans J.; Renswoude, Daan R. van; Raijmakers, Maartje E. J.; Bögels, Susan M.

doi:10.1016/j.infbeh.2018.07.004

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“…This supported the decision to integrate them into a single psychological distress variable, by standardizing and then averaging them for each assessment point. Similar procedures have been done in other studies (e.g., Aktar et al, 2018; Lovell, 2018).…”

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confidence: 71%

The path to dissociative experiences: A direct comparison of different etiological models

Buchnik-Daniely

Vannikov-Lugassi

Shalev

et al. 2021

Clin Psychology and Psychoth

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Severe dissociation is trauma‐related, but a range of dissociative experiences are also prevalent in clinical populations that are not necessarily trauma‐based (e.g., depression, anxiety disorders, and obsessive–compulsive disorders). These remain poorly understood as the dominant etiological model for dissociation relies on trauma. Importantly, dissociation in such samples predicts poor prognosis and high drop‐out rates. We set out to better understand the aetiology of dissociative experiences in a mixed clinical (anxiety and depression) and community sample by exploring between‐ and within‐subjects effects of two domains: psychological distress or negative affectivity (operationalized as anxiety and depression symptoms), and poor sleep quality, including disturbed dreaming. The idea that negative affectivity triggers dissociation (Distress Model) is inspired by the trauma model. The idea that poor sleep and unusual dreaming underlie dissociation (Sleep Model) has been suggested as a competing theory. We examined both models by exploring which domains oscillate alongside dissociative experiences. N = 98 adults, half of them diagnosed with depression and anxiety and half community controls, underwent a structured clinical interview and completed questionnaires monthly for 6 months. Support was found for both models in that each domain had a unique explanatory contribution. Distress evinced consistent effects that could not be explained by sleep or dreaming, both between individuals and across time. Oscillations in dissociation across months, when taking psychological distress into account, were better explained by unusual dreaming than traditional sleep quality measures. These findings cannot be generalized to highly‐traumatized samples. A complex, integrated etiological model for dissociative experiences is warranted.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 71%

The path to dissociative experiences: A direct comparison of different etiological models

Buchnik-Daniely

Vannikov-Lugassi

Shalev

et al. 2021

Clin Psychology and Psychoth

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“…We know from many studies that perceived threat (threat detection) influences the allocation of selective attention resources by modulating the ability to rapidly detect and respond to potentially threatening stimuli ( Phelps et al, 2006 ; Becker, 2009 ; Pereira et al, 2010 ; Olatunji et al, 2011 ; Aktar et al, 2018 ). For instance, exposure to an immediate emotional stimulus within the environment, such as a fearful facial expression, can facilitate heightened attention capture.…”

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Infants’ Selective Visual Attention Is Dependent on Maternal Affect and Emotional Context

2021

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Development of selective attention during the first year of life is critical to cognitive and socio-emotional skills. It is also a period that the average child’s interactions with their mother dominate their social environment. This study examined how maternal negative affect and an emotion face prime (mother/stranger) jointly effect selective visual attention. Results from linear mixed-effects modeling showed that 9-month olds (N=70) were faster to find a visual search target after viewing a fearful face (regardless of familiarity) or their mother’s angry face. For mothers with high negative affect, infants’ attention was further impacted by fearful faces, resulting in faster search times. Face emotion interacted with mother’s negative affect, demonstrating a capacity to influence what infants attend in their environment.

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“…Negative Affect. Negative affect was computed as the mean of the IBQ-R scales Sadness, Fear, and Distress to Limitations (Aktar et al, 2018).…”

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Maternal Odor Reduces the Neural Response to Fearful Faces in Human Infants

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2019

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Maternal odor is known to play an important role in mother-infant-interaction in 1 many altricial species such as rodents. However, we only know very little about 2 its role in early human development. The present study therefore investigated the 3 impact of maternal odor on infant brain responses to threat signals. We recorded 4 the electroencephalographic (EEG) signal of seven-month-old infants watching 5 happy and fearful facial expressions. While infants in two control groups showed 6 the expected EEG fear response, this response was markedly absent in the group 7 exposed to their mother's odor. Thus, infants respond differently to fear signals in 8 the presence of their mother and the mother's odor is a sufficiently strong signal 9 to elicit this effect. Our data suggest that olfaction, a sensory modality that has 10 been largely neglected as a social signal in our own species, might function as a 11 crucial modulator in early social learning. 12

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Parental negative emotions are related to behavioral and pupillary correlates of infants’ attention to facial expressions of emotion

Cited by 17 publications

References 67 publications

The path to dissociative experiences: A direct comparison of different etiological models

The path to dissociative experiences: A direct comparison of different etiological models

Infants’ Selective Visual Attention Is Dependent on Maternal Affect and Emotional Context

Maternal Odor Reduces the Neural Response to Fearful Faces in Human Infants

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