The Development of Attachment and Affiliative Systems

Abstract

I Perspectives from Primate Behavior and Neurobiology.- 1 Can Single Processes Explain Effects of Postnatal Influences on Primate Development?.- 2 Infant Monkeys' Achievement of Temporal Coherence with Their Social Group.- 3 Animal Models of Human Behavior: Their Application to the Study of Attachment.- 4 Animal Models in Developmental Psychobiology.- 5 The Timing of Hormone Signals in the Orchestration of Brain Development.- 6 Epigenetic Factors in Neuronal Differentiation: A Review of Recent Research.- 7 The Role of Hormones in Mother-Infant Transactions.- II Perspectives from Human Studies.- 8 Parent-to-Infant Attachment: A Critique of the Early "Bonding" Model.- 9 Silver Nitrate and the Eyes of the Newborn: Effects on Parental Responsiveness during Initial Social Interaction.- 10 Effect of Gender and Caretaking Role on Parent-Infant Interaction.- 11 An Investigation of Change in the Infant-Caregiver System over the First Week of Life.- 12 Biological Aspects the Mother-Infant Bond.- 13 Toward a Theory of Infant Temperament.- 14 Parent-Infant Interaction, Attachment, and Socioemotional Development in Infancy.- 15 A Structural Modeling Approach to the Study of Attachment and Strange Situation Behaviors.- 16 Infants' Differential Social Response to Mother and Experimenter: Relationships to Maternal Characteristics and Quality of Infant Play.- 17 Attachment Behavior in Abused/Neglected and Premature Infants: Implications for the Concept of Attachment.- 18 Maternal Referencing in Normal and Down's Syndrome Infants: A Longitudinal Analysis.- III Commentaries.- Attachment Research and Mental Health: A Speculation.- Attachment Research: Prospect and Progress.