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The preservation of two infant temperaments into adolescence / Jerome Kagan, Nancy Snidman, Vali Kahn and Sara Towsley ; with commentary by Laurence Steinberg and Nathan A. Fox.
LIBRA LB1103 .S6 v.72:no.2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kagan, Jerome.
- Series:
- Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development ; v. 72, no. 2.
- Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 0037-976X ; serial no. 287, vol. 72, no. 2, 2007
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Behavioral assessment of children.
- Behavioral assessment of infants.
- Child development.
- Temperament in adolescence--Longitudinal studies.
- Temperament in adolescence.
- Temperament in children--Longitudinal studies.
- Temperament in children.
- Genre:
- Longitudinal studies.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 95 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston, Mass. : Blackwell, 2007.
- Contents:
- Abstract
- 1. Introduction: Genes, neurochemistry and temperament
- Interaction with experience
- Other contributing factors
- Reaction to unfamiliarity
- Inhibited and uninhibited children
- II. The longitudinal study: Influence of the amygdala
- Selection of high and low reactive infants
- Biological measures at age 11
- III. The current study: Rationale
- Method
- Procedures
- IV. Results: Laboratory behavior
- Interview behavior
- Biology
- V. Discussion: Sources of worry
- Vulnerability to visceral feedback
- An integrated proposal
- Interactions with gender
- Risk for psychopathology
- Ambiguity of single measurements
- The romance with biology
- References
- Commentary
- Finished and unfinished business.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- OCLC:
- 164588292
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