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INFANT BEHAVIOR & DEVELOPMENT
Volume 36, Issue 4, Pages 548-556Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2013.05.003
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Depression; Facial expression; Social referencing; Early social development; Infant; Discrimination training
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The present study examined the acquisition of social referencing skills in infants of mothers with symptoms of depression (n=44). We aimed to determine if a short discrimination training could facilitate infants' social referencing. Mothers were instructed to pose either joyful or fearful facial expressions to cue infants' approach/avoidance responses toward an ambiguous object. Maternal expressions were correlated with pleasant or unpleasant events occurring after the infant's response. The results showed that after the intervention, infants looked at their mothers more frequently and reached or avoided the ambiguous object based on the preceding maternal expression. The results suggest that discrimination training procedures can establish social referencing in infants of mothers with symptoms of depression. (C) 2013 Published by Elsevier Inc.
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