Happy faces are habituated more slowly by infants of depressed mothers

被引：27

作者：

Hernandez-Reif, M

Field, T

Diego, M

Vera, Y

Pickens, J

机构：

[1] Univ Miami, Sch Med, Touch Res Inst, Dept Pediat, Miami, FL 33101 USA

[2] St Thomas Univ, Dept Psychol, Miami, FL USA

来源：

INFANT BEHAVIOR & DEVELOPMENT | 2006年 / 29卷 / 01期

关键词：

infants; depressed mothers; facial expression; habituation;

D O I：

10.1016/j.infbeh.2005.07.003

中图分类号：

B844 [发展心理学（人类心理学）];

学科分类号：

040202 ;

摘要：

Three-month-old infants of depressed (n = 16) and non-depressed mothers (n = 16) were habituated to video clips of a female model reciting phrases while posing happy or sad facial/vocal expressions and dishabituated to the alternate expressions. Overall, infants of depressed mothers took longer to habituate the video clips compared to infants of non-depressed mothers, and those assigned to habituate the sad video clips displayed a novelty response or dishabituated to the happy expressions. These findings suggest that 3-month-old infants of depressed mothers discriminate sad from happy expressions, however, they do not appear to perceive sad expressions as novel. (c) 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：131 / 135

页数：5

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