Maslow's pyramid of human needs, proposed in 1943, has been one of the most cognitively
contagious ideas in the behavioral sciences. Anticipating later evolutionary views of human …

Humans possess great capacity for behavioral and cultural change, but our ability to
manage change is still limited. This article has two major objectives: first, to sketch a basic …

Importance Mothers and children living in adverse contexts are at risk of premature death.
Objective To determine the effect of prenatal and infant/toddler nurse home visiting on …

Parenting behavior critically shapes human infants' current and future behavior. The parent–
infant relationship provides infants with their first social experiences, forming templates of …

Programs for parents of young children hold considerable promise for improving children's
life‐course trajectories and for reducing health and development problems and associated …

The postpartum period is associated with many adjustments to fathers that pose risks for
depression. Estimates of the prevalence of paternal postpartum depression (PPD) in the first …

This is a selective review that provides the context for the study of perinatal affective disorder
mechanisms and outlines directions for future research. We integrate existing literature …

Interacting parenting thoughts and behaviors, supported by key brain circuits, critically
shape human infants' current and future behavior. Indeed, the parent–infant relationship …

A range of early circumstances surrounding the birth of a child affects peripartum hormones,
parental behavior and infant wellbeing. One of these factors, which may lead to postpartum …

Research focusing on the prenatal mother–child relationship has begun to create a body of
scientific knowledge. The aim of our article is to bring a selective overview of research on …