ReviewDevelopmental psychology2019
Fear in infancy: Lessons from snakes, spiders, heights, and strangers.
Review in Developmental psychology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05864131 (Effects of Parental Holding on Pain Response in Young Children During Cystometry), which is not on this map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Effects of Parental Holding on Pain Response in Young Children During Cystometry: a Randomized Controlled Trial
Who cites it
23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 86 citations in OpenAlex.
- Parent to Offspring Fear Transmission via Modeling in Early Life: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2023Pooled it
- A double narrative: stories underpin fearful community attitudes toward snakes but offer a mechanism to reduce human-to-snake conflict.Global health action · 2026Article
- Effects of Gahvora Cradling on Learning, Motor Behavior, and Expression of Affect in 3-Month-Olds in Tajikistan.Brain sciences · 2026Article
- Subjective and psychophysiological response to pictures of ancestral and modern threats: Not all evolutionary threats are alike.PloS one · 2026Article
- From words to worries: A cross-cultural comparison of parent-child conversations about snakes in early childhood.PloS one · 2026Article
- A Multi-Component Model of Emotion Response Convergence: Implications for the Development of Psychopathology.Emotion review : journal of the International Society for Research on Emotion · 2025Article
- Stability of general cognitive ability from infancy to adulthood: A combined twin and genomic investigation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Emotions Represent Evaluative Properties Unconsciously.Erkenntnis · 2025Article
- Moving spiders do not boost visual search in spider fear.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Beyond Nature Versus Nurture: the Emergence of Emotion.Affective science · 2023Review
- The kleineWeltentdecker App - A smartphone-based developmental diary.Behavior research methods · 2022Article
- How the Emotional Environment Shapes the Emotional Life of the Child.Policy insights from the behavioral and brain sciences · 2022Article
- Parent-to-Child Anxiety Transmission Through Dyadic Social Dynamics: A Dynamic Developmental Model.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2022Review
- Social Fear in US Infants: The Roles of Hair and Salivary Cortisol.The Yale journal of biology and medicine · 2022Article
- Aberrant orbitofrontal cortical activation interferes with encoding of Pavlovian fear conditioning.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- Visual segmentation of complex naturalistic structures in an infant eye-tracking search task.PloS one · 2022Article
- Children's Evolved Learning Abilities and Their Implications for Education.Educational psychology review · 2022Article
- Attend Less, Fear More: Elevated Distress to Social Threat in Toddlers With Autism Spectrum Disorder.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2021Article
- Mechanisms of False Alarm in Response to Fear Stimulus: An Event-Related Potential Study.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- Is there evidence for sensitive periods in emotional development?Current opinion in behavioral sciences · 2020Article
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2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
This review challenges the traditional interpretation of infants' and young children's responses to three types of potentially "fear-inducing" stimuli-snakes and spiders, heights, and strangers. The traditional account is that these stimuli are the objects of infants' earliest developing fears. We present evidence against the traditional account, and provide an alternative explanation of infants' behaviors toward each stimulus. Specifically, we propose that behaviors typically interpreted as "fearful" really reflect an array of stimulus-specific responses that are highly dependent on context, learning, and the perceptual features of the stimuli. We speculate about why researchers so commonly misinterpret these behaviors, and conclude with future directions for studying the development of fear in infants and young children. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
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