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CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Volume 71, Issue 2, Pages 301-309Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8624.00145
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- NATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH RESOURCES [P51RR000165] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH [R01MH057249] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NCRR NIH HHS [RR-00165] Funding Source: Medline
- NIMH NIH HHS [R01-MH57249] Funding Source: Medline
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This study investigated the relation between crying and infant abuse in group-living rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). The subjects were 10 abusive mothers with their infants and 10 control mother-infant pairs. Abused infants cried more frequently than controls in the first 12 weeks of life, even when cries immediately following abuse were excluded from the analysis. The coos of 5 abused infants differed from those of 5 controls in several acoustic parameters, whereas their screams and geckers were acoustically similar, when recorded in the same context. Abusive mothers were less likely than control mothers to respond positively to the cries of their infants. Although infant cries may increase the probability of abuse being repeated, infant crying per se does not appear to be a major determinant of abuse.
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