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Author Kagan, Jerome.

Title 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.

Imprint Boston, Mass. : Blackwell, 2007.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  155.423 K119p 2007    ---  Available
Description vii, 95 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 0037-976X ; serial no. 287, vol. 72, no. 2, 2007
Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development ; v. 72, no. 2.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Subject Behavioral assessment of children.
Behavioral assessment of infants.
Child development.
Temperament in adolescence -- Longitudinal studies.
Temperament in children -- Longitudinal studies.
Added Author Collins, W. Andrew, 1944-
Fox, Nathan A.
Kahn, Vali.
Snidman, Nancy.
Steinberg, Laurence.
Towsley, Sara.

 
    
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