Cuteness in offspring is a potent protective mechanism that ensures survival for otherwise
completely dependent infants. Previous research has linked cuteness to early ethological …

Resilience is often associated with extreme trauma or overcoming extraordinary odds. This
way of thinking about resilience leaves most of the ontogenetic picture a mystery. In the …

In this completely revised and updated edition, Deconstructing Developmental Psychology
interrogates the assumptions and practices surrounding the psychology of child …

Objective To investigate the effect of mother/infant skin‐to‐skin contact (SSC) on mothers'
postpartum depressive symptoms during the first 3 postpartum months and their …

Psychological need theories offer much explanatory potential for behavioral scientists, but
there is considerable disagreement and confusion about what needs are and how they …

The study evaluates a social-communication-based approach to autism intervention aimed
at improving the social interaction skills of children with autism spectrum disorder. We report …

Objectives Although studies support a direct association between parent and child emotion
regulation, little work has considered potential mechanisms, such as family context. For …

Facebook is a popular social network that can be used for self-presentation. In the current
study we examined gender differences in Facebook self-presentation by evaluating …

The formation of early regulatory behavior during the first years is an important
developmental task and predictive for self-regulatory abilities in later life. Although parental …

Both prenatal and postnatal maternal depression are independently associated with an
increased risk of adverse infant development. The impact of postnatal depression on infants …