Highlights•Infants form attachment to their caregiver despite the quality of parenting.•Parents
program emotionality via regulation of infant physiology.•Parental nurturance and caregiver …

Emotional regulation in early infancy develops mainly through social interactions with
caregivers and is a key process in socioemotional functioning. The use of physiological …

Postnatal maternal depression is associated with poorer child emotional and behavioral
functioning, but it is unclear whether this occurs following brief episodes or only with …

The parasympathetic nervous system supports social interaction and varies in relation to
psychopathology. However, we know little about parasympathetic processes from a dyadic …

The twenty-first century has seen the development and delivery of online programs of
behavioral family intervention for disruptive child behavior. Typically, programs evaluate …

Prenatal maternal stress (PNMS)—characterized by exposure to stress, anxiety, depression,
or intimate partner violence—has been linked to biological alterations in infants, including …

Relations between maternal baseline cortisol and infant cortisol reactivity to an emotion
induction procedure at child ages 7, 15, and 24 months were analyzed using data from the …

An increasing amount of empirical attention is focused on adrenocortical synchrony as an
index of biobehavioral co‐regulation between parent and child in the context of early child …

The association between poverty and the activity of the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA)
axis in early childhood is well established. Both ecological and transactional theories …

Maltreating mothers often struggle to respond sensitively to their children's distress.
Examining psychophysiological processing of own child cues may offer insight into …