Aim To determine whether young childless adults show negative emotions and cognitive
disturbances when listening to infant crying, compared to other disturbing noises, and …

Abstract The Selfish Goal model challenges traditional agentic models that place conscious
systems at the helm of motivation. We highlight the need for ongoing supervision and …

Background: Early-life maltreatment has severe consequences for the affected individual,
and it has an impact on the next generation. To improve understanding of the …

Oxytocin (OT) and vasopressin (AVP) hormones as well as their receptors (OXTR and
AVPR1a) have been deemed crucial for caregiving and sensitive responsiveness to infant …

Several studies have shown that mothers and fathers have significant lower levels of
testosterone (T) than non-mothers and non-fathers, and that in men caregiving is related to a …

Animal studies show that exposure to parental neglect alters stress regulation and can lead
to neural hyposensitivity or hypersensitivity in response to cortisol, most pronounced in the …

We use principles of developmental science and the concept of experiential canalization as
a lens through which to view the development of selfregulation in childhood and risk for the …

Objective: to carry out the content validation of nursing diagnoses, results and interventions
contained in the terminology subset of the International Classification for Nursing Practice …

Adult appropriate responding to salient infant signals is vital to child healthy psychological
development. Here we investigated how infant crying, relative to other emotive sounds of …

We thank the commentators for an extraordinarily diverse and constructive set of comments.
Nearly all applaud our goal of sketching a unified science of change, even while raising …