ArticleScientific reports2014
Breastfeeding experience differentially impacts recognition of happiness and anger in mothers.
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- Breastfeeding in the Context of Trauma and Previous Psychological Experiences: A Narrative Review.Nutrients · 2026Review
- Breastfeeding in the midst of adversity: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of breastfeeding in adolescent mothers.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Maternal recognition of positive emotion predicts sensitive parenting in infancy.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2023Article
- Infant and maternal responses to emotional facial expressions: A longitudinal study.Infant behavior & development · 2023Article
- Traumatic Birth Experience and Breastfeeding Ineffectiveness - a Literature Review.Materia socio-medica · 2023Article
- The evolved nest, oxytocin functioning, and prosocial development.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
- Association between exclusive breastfeeding and postpartum post-traumatic stress disorder.International breastfeeding journal · 2022Article
- Exploring the Prescribing Process of Domperidone for Low Milk Supply: A Qualitative Study Among Mothers, IBCLCs, and Family Doctors.Journal of human lactation : official journal of International Lactation Consultant Association · 2021Article
- Dysphoric Milk Ejection Reflex: The Psychoneurobiology of the Breastfeeding Experience.Frontiers in global women's health · 2021Review
- Impact ofFrontiers in genetics · 2021Article
- Breastfeeding dynamically changes endogenous oxytocin levels and emotion recognition in mothers.Biology letters · 2020Article
- Epigenetic dynamics in infancy and the impact of maternal engagement.Science advances · 2019Article
- Epigenetic modification of the oxytocin receptor gene is associated with emotion processing in the infant brain.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2019Article
- Psychological effects of breastfeeding on children and mothers.Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz · 2018Review
- Maternal nurturing experience affects the perception and recognition of adult and infant facial expressions.PloS one · 2018Article
- Perceived Intensity of Emotional Point-Light Displays is Reduced in Subjects with ASD.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2018Article
- Genetic variation in CD38 and breastfeeding experience interact to impact infants' attention to social eye cues.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015Article
- Duration of exclusive breastfeeding is associated with differences in infants' brain responses to emotional body expressions.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2014Article
- Breastfeeding and Adult Personality.European journal of personalityArticle
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Abstract
Breastfeeding is a dynamic biological and social process based on hormonal regulation involving oxytocin. While there is much work on the role of breastfeeding in infant development and on the role of oxytocin in socio-emotional functioning in adults, little is known about how breastfeeding impacts emotion perception during motherhood. We therefore examined whether breastfeeding influences emotion recognition in mothers. Using a dynamic emotion recognition task, we found that longer durations of exclusive breastfeeding were associated with faster recognition of happiness, providing evidence for a facilitation of processing positive facial expressions. In addition, we found that greater amounts of breastfed meals per day were associated with slower recognition of anger. Our findings are in line with current views of oxytocin function and support accounts that view maternal behaviour as tuned to prosocial responsiveness, by showing that vital elements of maternal care can facilitate the rapid responding to affiliative stimuli by reducing importance of threatening stimuli.
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