Infants' vocal engagement oriented towards mother versus stranger at 3 months and avoidant attachment behavior at 12 months

2007 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-95
Author(s):  
Susanne Völker
Keyword(s):  
Eye Contact ◽  
Time Difference ◽  
Vocal Behavior ◽  
Attachment Behavior ◽  
Strange Situation ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Avoidant Attachment ◽  
Early Infant ◽  
Ainsworth's Strange Situation

The aim of the present study was to demonstrate that mother avoidance in infants at the age of 12 months can be predicted by the infants' differential vocal engagement to mother versus a female stranger at the age of 3 months. Differential engagement in favor of the mother was supposed to relate to low future avoidance. The vocal behavior of 26 infants was assessed during face-to-face interactions with their mothers and with a strange woman at the age of 3 months. Differential vocal engagement was measured in terms of the time difference the infants spent vocalizing during eye contact with mother and stranger. At the age of 12 months avoidance of the mother was assessed during the reunion episodes of Ainsworth's Strange Situation. The result confirmed the assumption. Differential engagement in 3-month-olds is discussed as an indicator of the early infant–mother relationship.

scholarly journals Eye contact effect: The role of vagal regulation and reactivity, and self-regulation of attention

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alicja Niedźwiecka
Keyword(s):  
Executive Functions ◽  
Cognitive Performance ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Eye Contact ◽  
Autonomic Regulation ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Effective Strategies ◽  
Contact Effect ◽  
The Individual

AbstractEye contact is a crucial aspect of social interactions that may enhance an individual’s cognitive performance (i.e. the eye contact effect) or hinder it (i.e. face-to-face interference effect). In this paper, I focus on the influence of eye contact on cognitive performance in tasks engaging executive functions. I present a hypothesis as to why some individuals benefit from eye contact while others do not. I propose that the relations between eye contact and executive functioning are modulated by an individual’s autonomic regulation and reactivity and self-regulation of attention. In particular, I propose that individuals with more optimal autonomic regulation and reactivity, and more effective self-regulation of attention benefit from eye contact. Individuals who are less well regulated and over- or under-reactive and who do not employ effective strategies of self-regulation of attention may not benefit from eye contact and may perform better when eye contact is absent. I present some studies that justify the proposed hypothesis and point to a method that could be employed to test them. This approach could help to better understand the complex mechanisms underlying the individual differences in participant’s cognitive performance during tasks engaging executive functions.

Mothers’ empathic understanding of their preschoolers’ internal experience: Relations with early attachment

2001 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Oppenheim ◽  
Nina Koren-Karie ◽  
Abraham Sagi
Keyword(s):  
Strange Situation ◽  
Early Attachment ◽  
Empathic Understanding ◽  
Early Infant ◽  
Mother Attachment ◽  
Composite Scores ◽  
Internal Experience

This study examined the links between mothers’ empathic understanding of their preschoolers’ internal experience and early infant-mother attachment. The empathic understanding of 118 mothers of 4.5-year-olds was assessed by showing them three videotaped segments of observations of their children and themselves and interviewing them regarding their children’s and their own thoughts and feelings. Interviews were rated and then classi” ed into one empathic and three nonempathic categories, and mothers’ misperceptions of the observations were coded as well. Infant-mother attachment classifications obtained using the Strange Situation when infants were 12 months old were also available. Results showed associations between mothers’ empathic understanding classifications and children’s attachment classifications as well as differences between mothers of secure and insecure children on one of the two interview composite scores. Also, mothers of insecurely attached children had more misperceptions than those of securely attached children. The contributions of this study to the work on mothers’ representations of their children are discussed.

German Children's Behavior Towards Their Mothers at 12 Months and Their Fathers at 18 Months in Ainsworth's Strange Situation

1981 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus E. Grossmann ◽  
Karin Grossmann ◽  
Franz Huber ◽  
Ulrike Wartner
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Strange Situation ◽  
Attachment Relationship ◽  
Children's Behavior ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Ainsworth's Strange Situation

Fourty-nine 12 months old children and their mothers were videotaped in Ainsworth's Strange Situation. Fourty-six of them were videotaped again in the same situation at 18 months with their fathers. Quality of attachment was determined by using Ainsworth's criteria. Fewer children had 'secure' relationships to their parents than in comparable U.S. samples. There was no correlation between infant-mother and infant-father quality of attachment relationship. The results are discussed in terms of parental attempts to cope with cultural demands imposed on them. These specific cultural demands may frequently interfere with the establishment of a securely attached relationship. On the other hand, they may be only transitory and appropriate from an adaptation to culture-specific expectancies point of view.

scholarly journals An Abstraction of Cyber Inception: Using a Modified Version of Battleship to Study Strategies and Behavior of Deception

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 1326-1330
Author(s):  
Verica Buchanan ◽  
Ashley R. Chinzi ◽  
Nicholas C. Day ◽  
Lidija A. Buchanan ◽  
Rachel Specht ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Response Time ◽  
Cyber Security ◽  
Eye Contact ◽  
Study Strategies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Lower Response ◽  
Behavioral Cues ◽  
Tone Of Voice ◽  
And Behavior

Inception has been proposed as a means to protect our cyber domain. In order to fully take advantage of this strategy we must first understand deception from the human point of view, because it is the human cyber attacker that plans and orchestrates cyberattacks. Moreover, although various deceptive tactics are addressed in the cyber-security literature, it appears they are categorized more from the standpoint of technology than from their behavioral origins. In order to better understand the interplay between attacker and defender, and associated cues of deception, we abstracted the cyber deception task. Participants played a modified version of Battleship either face-to-face or with a divider. Deception was significantly higher in the divider condition. Additionally, participants used patterns of deception analogous to cyber attackers and defenders such as blatant lies, diversion, and honeypots. An array of behavioral cues were also observed when participants lied and included variations in tone of voice, less eye contact, lower response time, and other physical indicators. Implications and future projects are discussed.

Is attachment at ages 1, 6 and 16 related to autonomy and relatedness behavior of adolescents in interaction towards their mothers?

2008 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 372-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabienne Becker-Stoll ◽  
Elisabeth Fremmer-Bombik ◽  
Ulrike Wartner ◽  
Peter Zimmermann ◽  
Klaus E. Grossmann
Keyword(s):  
Adult Attachment Interview ◽  
Attachment Behavior ◽  
Strange Situation ◽  
Attachment Representation ◽  
Attachment Quality ◽  
Infancy And Childhood ◽  
Adolescent Attachment ◽  
Childhood Attachment ◽  
Adolescent Autonomy

This study investigates whether attachment quality at ages 1, 6 and 16 is related to autonomy and relatedness behavior in adolescence. In a follow-up of the Regensburg Longitudinal Study, forty-three 16-year-old adolescents and their mothers were assessed in a revealed differences task and a planning a vacation task. Attachment was assessed during infancy using the Ainsworth Strange Situation and at age six with the reunion procedure. Adolescent attachment representation was assessed using the Adult Attachment Interview. Results provided no evidence for significant continuity between infant or childhood attachment behavior and adolescent attachment representation. Instability of attachment organization, however, was linked to a higher number of experienced risk factors. Substantial relations between adolescent attachment representation and adolescent autonomy and relatedness behavior were found in both interaction tasks with their mothers. Further, significant relations between attachment qualities at ages 1 and 6 and adolescent interaction behavior during the planning a vacation task at age 16 were found. Thus, independent of attachment stability or instability, both early attachment in infancy and childhood and concurrent attachment representation were significantly related to autonomy and relatedness behavior in adolescence.

scholarly journals A prosocial character of head-gaze aversion in common marmosets

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Spadacenta ◽  
Peter W Dicke ◽  
Peter Thier
Keyword(s):  
Mammalian Species ◽  
Eye Contact ◽  
Striking Similarity ◽  
Human Infants ◽  
Common Marmosets ◽  
Gaze Aversion ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Direct Gaze ◽  
Video Footage ◽  
The Gaze

Gaze aversion is a behavior adopted by several mammalian and non-mammalian species in response to eye contact and usually interpreted as reaction to perceived threat. Unlike many other primates, common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus) are thought to have high tolerance for direct gaze, barely exhibiting gaze avoidance towards conspecifics and humans. Here we show that this does not hold for marmosets interacting with a familiar experimenter who suddenly establishes eye contact in a playful interaction (peek-a-boo game). In video footage synchronously recorded from the two agents, we found that our monkeys consistently alternated between eye contact and head-gaze aversion. The striking similarity with the gaze aversion dynamics exhibited by human infants interacting with their caregivers suggests a shared behavioral strategy to disengage temporarily from overwhelming social stimulation, in order to prepare for a new round of rewarding, affiliative face-to-face interaction. The potential of our finding for a marmoset model of autism is discussed.

scholarly journals Robot Gaze Behavior Affects Honesty in Human-Robot Interaction

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elef Schellen ◽  
Francesco Bossi ◽  
Agnieszka Wykowska
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Eye Contact ◽  
Humanoid Robots ◽  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Gaze Behavior ◽  
Robot Interaction ◽  
Facial Cues ◽  
Social Agents ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Deceptive Behavior

As the use of humanoid robots proliferates, an increasing amount of people may find themselves face-to-“face” with a robot in everyday life. Although there is a plethora of information available on facial social cues and how we interpret them in the field of human-human social interaction, we cannot assume that these findings flawlessly transfer to human-robot interaction. Therefore, more research on facial cues in human-robot interaction is required. This study investigated deception in human-robot interaction context, focusing on the effect that eye contact with a robot has on honesty towards this robot. In an iterative task, participants could assist a humanoid robot by providing it with correct information, or potentially secure a reward for themselves by providing it with incorrect information. Results show that participants are increasingly honest after the robot establishes eye contact with them, but only if this is in response to deceptive behavior. Behavior is not influenced by the establishment of eye contact if the participant is actively engaging in honest behavior. These findings support the notion that humanoid robots can be perceived as, and treated like, social agents, since the herein described effect mirrors one present in human-human social interaction.

Are Infants with Orofacial Clefts at Risk for Insecure Mother-Child Attachments?

2000 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine L. Maris ◽  
Marya C. Endriga ◽  
Matthew L. Speltz ◽  
Karen Jones ◽  
Michelle Deklyen
Keyword(s):  
Cleft Lip ◽  
Cleft Lip And Palate ◽  
Attachment Security ◽  
Comparison Group ◽  
Diagnostic Group ◽  
Group Differences ◽  
Attachment Behavior ◽  
Orofacial Clefts ◽  
Strange Situation ◽  
Previous Theory

Objective Several risk factors in the early lives of children with clefts are believed to interfere with their development of secure attachments to parents; however, this possibility has rarely been studied empirically. This study compared 12- and 24-month attachment classifications of infants with cleft palate (CP), infants with cleft lip and palate (CLP), and a comparison group of unimpaired infants (COMP). Method Twenty-two CP infants, 24 CLP infants, and 61 matched COMP infants were assessed at 12 and 24 months of age in an urban children's hospital. At both visits, mothers and infants participated in the Strange Situation, which was videotaped and subsequently coded for patterns of attachment behavior. Results CP infants displayed a lower rate of 12-month attachment security than infants in the CLP or COMP groups. By 24 months, no diagnostic group differences in attachment classification were found. Stable 12- to 24-month attachment classifications were less likely in the CP group (36.3%) than in the COMP (62.3%) group. CP infants who were insecure at 12 months were more likely to become secure by 24 months than were CLP or COMP group infants. Conclusions In contrast to previous theory and clinical speculation, the facial appearance of infants with CLP does not appear to affect the early mother-infant relationship adversely. The infancy period is marked by attachment instability for infants with CP, who demonstrated lower-than-expected rates of security at 12 months. However, these problems resolved in nearly all cases by 24 months of age. Most infants with clefts emerged from the first 2 years of life with secure maternal attachments.

scholarly journals Socially indiscriminate attachment behavior in the Strange Situation: Convergent and discriminant validity in relation to caregiving risk, later behavior problems, and attachment insecurity

2009 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 355-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karlen Lyons-Ruth ◽  
Jean-François Bureau ◽  
Caitlin D. Riley ◽  
Alisha F. Atlas-Corbett
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Problems ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Psychiatric Hospitalization ◽  
Attachment Behavior ◽  
Strange Situation ◽  
Hyperactive Behavior ◽  
Convergent And Discriminant Validity ◽  
Observational Measure ◽  
Caregiver Report

AbstractSocially indiscriminate attachment behavior has been repeatedly observed among institutionally reared children. Socially indiscriminate behavior has also been associated with aggression and hyperactivity. However, available data rely heavily on caregiver report of indiscriminate behavior. In addition, few studies have been conducted with samples of home-reared infants exposed to inadequate care. The current study aimed to develop a reliable laboratory measure of socially indiscriminate forms of attachment behavior based on direct observation and to validate the measure against assessments of early care and later behavior problems among home-reared infants. Strange Situation episodes of 75 socially at-risk mother–infant dyads were coded for infant indiscriminate attachment behavior on the newly developed Rating for Infant–Stranger Engagement. After controlling for infant insecure–organized and disorganized behavior in all analyses, extent of infant–stranger engagement at 18 months was significantly related to serious caregiving risk (maltreatment or maternal psychiatric hospitalization), observed quality of disrupted maternal affective communication, and aggressive and hyperactive behavior problems at age 5. Results are discussed in relation to the convergent and discriminant validity of the new measure and to the potential utility of a standardized observational measure of indiscriminate attachment behavior. Further validation is needed in relation to caregiver report measures of indiscriminate behavior.

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