If one wished to discover the function of sleep a particularly important place to look would be infant sleep. In the first months of life, the human infant spends most of its 24-hour day asleep (15-18 ...

Vol. 88, No. 2, SPECIAL SECTION: Developmental Research and Translational Science: Evidence-Based Interventions for At-Risk Youth and Families (MARCH/APRIL 2017), pp. 584-596 (13 pages) Although ...

The connection that infants form with their parents or caregivers is crucial for their cognitive, social, and emotional development. These attachments vary in quality, depending on how caregivers ...

In the late Victorian and Edwardian eras, orphanages and foundling homes had shockingly high mortality rates. For example, the Dusseldorf nursery—a well funded, clean, and 'scientific' ...

Leaving an infant to 'cry it out' from birth up to 18 months does not adversely affect their behavior development or attachment, researchers from the University of Warwick have found, they also ...

Taken together, these findings underscore the relevance of fetal movement within the psychology of pregnancy, suggesting that ...

This meta-analytic review (k = 5-10; N = 258-895) examined links between attachment insecurity and physiological activity at baseline and in response to interpersonal stress elicited by ...

When a caregiver uses their phone while feeding an infant, babies are more likely to be overfed. The number of audible ...