Our article questions the assumption that stranger anxiety develops universally in children; thereby our study is rooted in a long tradition in psychological anthropology of testing the universality of theories formulated in Western society. We argue that the infant\u27s behavior towards strangers is the product of socialization processes that represent adaptations to cultural contexts. Our study investigates the ethnotheory of childrearing and the development of stranger anxiety in a Cameroonian community of traditional Nso farmers. The participants of the study were 29 Cameroonian Nso mothers with one-year old children. Using a multi-method approach, we demonstrate that Nso mothers value inexpressive infants that adjust easily to others. ...
Ainsworth and Bell’s (1970) study of one-year-olds in a situation involving interaction with a stran...
Humans have engaged in unique cooperative breeding insofar as multiple in-group members help mothers...
Cross-situational continuity and change in anxious solitary girls' behavior and peer relations were ...
Our article questions the assumption that stranger anxiety develops universally in children; thereby...
Our article questions the assumption that stranger anxiety develops universally in children; thereby...
Early mother-infant interactions are influenced by the eco-cultural context within which they take p...
In this experiment we investigated the impact of indirect expressions of maternal social anxiety on ...
Zbaracki\u27s article is a pleasure to read because its style reflects the major theme of comparing ...
Background: Anxiety aggregates in families. Environmental factors, such as modelling of anxious be...
This paper summarizes some of the research on infant socialization conducted at the University of Mo...
Responses to an unfamiliar adult were examined in infants of mothers with social phobia (N = 79) and...
Background: Social phobia aggregates in families. The genetic contribution to intergenerational tran...
In recent decades, social anxiety among children has become considerably more common phenomenon in...
J. Bowlby (1969) proposed that the child's insistence on maintainance of proximity to protective (pa...
Attachment theory is commonly used to investigate children’s psychosocial development. To demonstrat...
Ainsworth and Bell’s (1970) study of one-year-olds in a situation involving interaction with a stran...
Humans have engaged in unique cooperative breeding insofar as multiple in-group members help mothers...
Cross-situational continuity and change in anxious solitary girls' behavior and peer relations were ...
Our article questions the assumption that stranger anxiety develops universally in children; thereby...
Our article questions the assumption that stranger anxiety develops universally in children; thereby...
Early mother-infant interactions are influenced by the eco-cultural context within which they take p...
In this experiment we investigated the impact of indirect expressions of maternal social anxiety on ...
Zbaracki\u27s article is a pleasure to read because its style reflects the major theme of comparing ...
Background: Anxiety aggregates in families. Environmental factors, such as modelling of anxious be...
This paper summarizes some of the research on infant socialization conducted at the University of Mo...
Responses to an unfamiliar adult were examined in infants of mothers with social phobia (N = 79) and...
Background: Social phobia aggregates in families. The genetic contribution to intergenerational tran...
In recent decades, social anxiety among children has become considerably more common phenomenon in...
J. Bowlby (1969) proposed that the child's insistence on maintainance of proximity to protective (pa...
Attachment theory is commonly used to investigate children’s psychosocial development. To demonstrat...
Ainsworth and Bell’s (1970) study of one-year-olds in a situation involving interaction with a stran...
Humans have engaged in unique cooperative breeding insofar as multiple in-group members help mothers...
Cross-situational continuity and change in anxious solitary girls' behavior and peer relations were ...