Background The quality of early experiences with caregivers affects individual adjustment
and can modulate adults' responses to salient social stimuli, like infant faces. However, in …

Baby schema features are a specific set of physical features—including chubby cheeks,
large, low-set eyes, and a large, round head—that have evolutionary adaptive value in their …

We examined associations between mothers'(N= 137; 77.7% White/non-Hispanic) neural
responding implicated in facial encoding (N170) and attention (P300) to infant emotional …

We investigated whether men's affective and cognitive empathy toward children's emotions
changes across the transition to fatherhood. Specifically, we were interested in whether …

Infant faces have been shown to be particularly motivating stimuli for women. No studies,
however, have compared mothers and nonmothers in whether parity modulates approach …

Emotional empathy has been linked to prosocial behaviors and is deemed crucial for
parenting and caring for infants. This study examined whether emotional empathy …

Infant faces readily capture adult attention and elicit enhanced neural processing, likely due
to their importance evolutionarily in facilitating bonds with caregivers. Facial malformations …

We aimed to identify maternal characteristics predicting interpretation of infant emotions, as
well as relations between such interpretations and mother-infant stress. Specifically, we …

Physiological, neurocognitive, and psychological changes facilitates adaptation to
motherhood. This cross-sectional study aimed to examine differences between pregnant …

Baby schema features are a specific set of physical features—including chubby cheeks,
large, low-set eyes, and a large, round head—that have evolutionary adaptive value in their …