ArticleScientific reports2019
The left-cradling bias and its relationship with empathy and depression.
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- Human Lateralization, Maternal Effects and Neurodevelopmental Disorders.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2021Article
- The Role of Ethnic Prejudice in the Modulation of Cradling Lateralization.Journal of nonverbal behavior · 2021Article
- Human-like maternal left-cradling bias in monkeys is altered by social pressure.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Received Cradling Bias During the First Year of Life: A Retrospective Study on Children With Typical and Atypical Development.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
- The Relationship Between the Left-Cradling Bias and Attachment to Parents and Partner.Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behaviorArticle
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Abstract
Women usually cradle their infants to the left of their body midline. Research showed that the left cradling could be altered by affective symptoms in mothers, so that right cradling might be associated with a reduced ability to become emotionally involved with the infant. In this study, we assessed cradling-side bias (using family photo inspection and an imagination task), as well as depression and empathy, in 50 healthy mothers of 0-3 years old children. The main finding was that the strength of the left-cradling bias was negatively related with participants' depression scores and slightly positively related with their empathy scores. Our results thus provide further evidence that cradling-side preferences can represent an evolutionary proxy of mother's affective state, influencing the early development of the infant social brain and behaviour.
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