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Title: Aggression in toddlers: Associations with temper loss and parent-child conflict

Authors: Tamara Del Vecchio, Michael F. Lorber, Kätlin Peets, Brooke Edelman, Amy M. S. Slep

Certain #aggressive behaviors are associated more strongly with temper loss and defiance in #infants and #toddlers.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/sode.12698

Six facial prosodic expressions caregivers similarly display to infants and dogs 👶🐶

https://nature.com/articles/s41598-022-26981-7

Identified 3 facial displays + the 3 already described, that mothers & fathers typically display interacting with their 1–18 month-old infants & family dogs, but not with other adults 😛

#face #expressions #infants #dogs

New uploads to our #ESISyNC2022 playlist: ➡️ https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNNYrc8wVrla_d2y4aF6ol-076Vl5MUXi

Talk by Rebecca Saxe: "Human infants' brains are specialized for social functions".
❓ How are infant brain development and social functions organized? 👶 🧠 @rebecca_saxe from the McGovern Institute at MIT elucidates the role of social inferences in infants' brains to form representations of other people.

#neuroscience #conference #frankfurt #development #infants

A study examines how #infants, despite having only a nascent lexicon, learn the complex relationships between words and grammar. In PNAS: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2209153119

#Infants are being hospitalized with #Covid at higher rates than most adults and seniors.
The first year of life is a dangerous time. Let’s vaccinate our youngest before the virus finds them. - https://insidemedicine.bulletin.com/infants-are-being-hospitalized-with-covid-at-higher-rates-than-most-adults-and-seniors