BIOB51H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cortisol, Thumb Sucking, Mary Ainsworth
4 Jul 2017
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Discrimination reported in pregnancy (thayer & kuzawa, 2015) Women asked if because of the ethnitcity if they were treated with less respect, harassed, etc The mothers evening cortisol levels had elevated cortisol levels than those with less. In children with ethnic discrimination showed elevated cortisol response to immunization. Emotional contagion: the tendency to feel and express emotions similar to and influenced by those of others. Potential way for mother and child to exchange their emotional state. To test this idea stress contagion study: physiological covariation between mothers and. Design: mothers randomly assigned to experience a stressful positive-evulation task ,a stressful negative-evaluation task, or a nonstressful control task; and then reunited the mothers and infants. Modified social stress task: positive and negativde feedback, control. Infants whose mothers experienced social evaluation showed more avoidance toward strangers. The ngative-evaluation condition, compared with the other conditions, generated greater physiological covariation in the dyads, and this covariation increased over time.
