In recent decades, human sociocultural changes have increased the numbers of fathers that
are involved in direct caregiving in Western societies. This trend has led to a resurgence of …

According to the Cooperative Breeding Hypothesis, apes with the life-history attributes of
those in the line leading to the genus Homo could not have evolved unless male and female …

Resilience–a key topic in clinical science and practice–still lacks a clear conceptualization
that integrates its evolutionary and human‐specific features, refrains from exclusive focus on …

Allomothering, the caregiving to offspring by adults other than the biological mother
including fathers and other group members, has characterized human societies throughout …

With the growing involvement of fathers in childrearing and the application of neuroscientific
tools to research on parenting, there is a need to understand how a father's brain and …

Attachment theory is built on the assumption of consistency; the mother–infant bond is
thought to underpin the life-long representations individuals construct of attachment …

Numerous studies have demonstrated that oxytocin (OT), a peptide hormone, plays an
important role in regulating mammalian social behaviors, linking it to social affiliation in …

Infant stimuli elicit widespread neural and behavioral response in human adults, and such
massive allocation of resources attests to the evolutionary significance of the primary …

Fathers have been an important source of child endurance and prosperity since the dawn of
civilization, promoting adaptation to social rules, defining cultural meaning systems …

The oxytocin (OXT) and dopamine systems synergistically facilitate striatal reactivity.
Abnormal striatal activation has repeatedly been observed in patients with bipolar disorder …