INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN PHYSICAL AND AFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING IN INFANCY

这个项目的重点是个体差异的长期后果 在身体，社会和情感功能和描述 不同生态背景下的早期互动。 在一项研究中，我们 研究了婴儿与母亲的互动和依恋， 中产阶级的欧美人和下层的中美洲家庭， 制定对文化敏感的标准， 行为和发展。 无论社会或种族背景如何， 母亲们花在离散活动上的时间相当， 喂养，照顾，和他们的婴儿玩耍。 可比 对哥斯达黎加、魁北克、德国、 中非共和国和哥伦比亚旨在进一步探索 文化和背景对早期互动的影响。

This project focuses on long-term consequences of individual differences in physical, social, and affective functioning and the description of early interaction in diverse ecological contexts. In one study, we studied infant-mother interaction and attachment in infants from upper- middle class Euro-Americans and lower-class Central American families, developing culturally-sensitive criteria for evaluating normative social behavior and development. Regardless of social or ethnic background, mothers spent comparable amounts of time in discrete activities such as feeding, caring for, and playing with their infants. Comparable observations of mothers and infants in Costa Rica, Quebec, Germany, the Central African Republic, and Colombia are designed to further explore the effects of culture and context on early interactions.