Recent debates regarding the primacy of social interaction versus individual cognition
appear to be caused by the lack of an integrative account of the multiple scales at play. We …

Synchrony refers to the coordinated interplay of behavioural and physiological signals that
reflect the bi-directional attunement of one partner to the other's psychophysiological …

Infant development has long been a source of great interest among developmental
scientists. No period of development is characterized by as much growth in physical …

Ten dyads were observed biweekly from 10 to 24 months of infant age while playing
together at home with a set of toys. The aim was to examine whether mother–infant …

In humans, as in other animal species, early caregiver-infant interactions influence
physiological and psychological processes by modulating brain sensitivity. Furthermore …

This article is part of a Special Issue “Parental Care”. Becoming a parent is arguably the
most profound transforming experience in life. It is also inherently very emotionally and …

Alloparental care, the cooperative care of offspring by group members other than the
biological mother, has been widely practiced since early hominin evolution to increase infant …

It is a central tenet of attachment theory that individual differences in attachment
representations organize behavior during social interactions. Secure attachment …

There is growing interest in the hypothesis that early parenting behaviors impact children's
self-regulation by affecting children's developing brain networks. Yet, most prior research on …

Coregulation refers to the process by which relationship partners form a dyadic emotional
system involving an oscillating pattern of affective arousal and dampening that dynamically …