ReviewNeuroscience and biobehavioral reviews2011
Parental precaution: neurobiological means and adaptive ends.
Review in Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
18 citing papers in PubMed, 74 citations in OpenAlex.
- Event-related potentials and behavioral correlates of emotional recognition memory in late pregnancy.Archives of women's mental health · 2025Article
- Noradrenergic Regulation of the Medial Prefrontal Cortex Mediates Stress Coping in Postpartum Female Mice.Molecular neurobiology · 2025Article
- Locus Coeruleus-Noradrenergic Neurons Regulate Stress Coping During Subchronic Exposure to Social Threats: A Characteristic Feature in Postpartum Female Mice.Cellular and molecular neurobiology · 2023Article
- The Holy Father (and Mother)? Multiple Tests of the Hypothesis That Parenthood and Parental Care Motivation Lead to Greater Religiosity.Personality & social psychology bulletin · 2023Article
- Patterns of Maternal Distress from Pregnancy Through Childhood Predict Psychopathology During Early Adolescence.Child psychiatry and human development · 2023Article
- How demographics and concerns about the Trump administration relate to prenatal mental health among Latina women.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2022Article
- Prenatal Neighborhood Ethnocultural Context and the Mental Health of Mothers and Children in Low-Income Mexican American Families.Child development · 2021Article
- Exploring the hormonal and neural correlates of paternal protective behavior to their infants.Developmental psychobiology · 2021Article
- Multilevel prenatal socioeconomic determinants of Mexican American children's weight: Mediation by breastfeeding.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2020Article
- Exploring the neural basis for paternal protection: an investigation of the neural response to infants in danger.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2019Article
- Pregnancy reduces the perception of anxiety.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Deficits in Response Inhibition in Patients with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: The Impaired Self-Protection System Hypothesis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2017Article
- Psychological dysregulation during adolescence mediates the association of parent-child attachment in childhood and substance use disorder in adulthood.The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse · 2014Article
- Oxytocin-Motivated Ally Selection is Moderated by Fetal Testosterone Exposure and Empathic Concern.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2013Article
- Cancer-related sources of stress for children with cancer and their parents.Journal of pediatric psychology · 2012Article
- Maternal defense: breast feeding increases aggression by reducing stress.Psychological science · 2011Article
- Human threat management systems: self-protection and disease avoidance.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2011Review
- Longitudinal Changes in Fear Learning across Pregnancy: Moderation by Sexual Trauma.Women's health reports (New Rochelle, N.Y.)Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
Humans invest precious reproductive resources in just a few offspring, who remain vulnerable for an extended period of their lifetimes relative to other primates. Therefore, it is likely that humans evolved a rich precautionary psychology that assists in the formidable task of protecting offspring. In this review, we integrate precautionary behaviors during pregnancy and postpartum with the adaptive functions they may serve and what is known of their biological mediators, particularly brain systems motivating security and attachment. We highlight the role of reproductive hormones in (i) priming parental affiliation with young to incentivize offspring protection, (ii) focusing parental attention on cues of potential threat, and (iii) facilitating maternal defense against potentially dangerous conspecifics and predators. Throughout, we center discussion on adaptive responses to threats of disease, accident and assault as common causes of child mortality in the ancestral past.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.