Infants' preference for touch stimulation in face-to-face interactions

Pelaez‐Nogueras, Martha; Gewirtz, Jacob L.; Field, Tiffany; Cigales, Maricel; Malphurs, Julie; Clasky, Sara; Sanchez, Aida

doi:10.1016/s0193-3973(96)90025-8

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“…Peláez-Nogueras, Gewirtz, Field, and Cigales (1996) claimed that contact adds to the positive reinforcement value of other forms of reinforcing stimulation. They used the synchronized reinforcement procedure, a contingency-based technique that allows researchers to measure infants' preferences for social stimulation.…”

Section: Effects Of Contact On Arousal Emotional Expression and Thementioning

confidence: 99%

“…They used the synchronized reinforcement procedure, a contingency-based technique that allows researchers to measure infants' preferences for social stimulation. Peláez-Nogueras et al (1996) used this procedure to reinforce infant eye contact to the experimenter with two reinforcers: a stimulus compilation that included the face, voice, and contact of an adult versus one that did not include contact. Infants 1.5 to 3.5 months old who received tactile stimulation made more eye contact, emitted more smiles and vocalizations, and spent less time crying and protesting than infants receiving no tactile stimulation.…”

Section: Effects Of Contact On Arousal Emotional Expression and Thementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The work by Muir (1990, 1992) and Peláez-Nogueras et al (1997;Peláez-Nogueras et al, 1996) demonstrates how contact regulates an already existing action tendency. Contact is used to modulate an extant negative action tendency in the former (Stack & Muir, 1990, 1992, whereas contact is used to amplify an existing positive action tendency in the latter (Peláez-Nogueras et al, 1997;Peláez-Nogueras et al, 1996).…”

Section: Effects Of Contact On Arousal Emotional Expression and Thementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Contact is used to modulate an extant negative action tendency in the former (Stack & Muir, 1990, 1992, whereas contact is used to amplify an existing positive action tendency in the latter (Peláez-Nogueras et al, 1997;Peláez-Nogueras et al, 1996). In these studies, the dependent variables focus solely on the expressive component of emotionality.…”

Section: Effects Of Contact On Arousal Emotional Expression and Thementioning

confidence: 99%

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Emotion Regulation Via Maternal Touch

Hertenstein

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2001

Infancy

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The study of emotion elicitation in the caregiver-infant dyad has focused almost exclusively on the facial and vocal channels, whereas little attention has been given to the contribution of the tactile channel. This study was undertaken to investigate the effects of touch on infants' emotions. During the time that objects were presented to the dyad, mothers provided tactile stimulation to their 12-month-old infants by either (a) tensing their fingers around the infants' abdomen while abruptly inhaling, (b) relaxing their grip around the infants' abdomen, or (c) not providing additional tactile stimulation (control condition). The results revealed that infants in the first condition (a) touched the objects less and waited longer to touch the objects while displaying more negative emotional displays compared to infants in the control condition. However, no apparent differences were found between infants in the second condition (b) and the control condition. The results suggest that infants' emotions may be elicited by specific parameters of touch.Touch has been described as the most fundamental means of contact with the world (Barnett, 1972) and the simplest and most straightforward of all sensory systems (Geldard, 1960). An extensive body of research has been conducted on the importance of touch and infant massage for sensory, cognitive, neurological, and physical development, as well as for pain management and arousal regulation (e.g., Field, 1998). However, the specific role of touch in eliciting and communicating emotions remains largely unexplored (Hertenstein, in press). In this article we present the results of an initial study investigating the processes by which touch elicits and regulates emotion in infants.The lack of investigation on touch and its relation to emotion is surprising. Touch may be an extraordinarily powerful sensory system for eliciting emotion. The skin contains receptors that directly elicit hedonic values, either because INFANCY, 2(4),[549][550][551][552][553][554][555][556][557][558][559][560][561][562][563][564][565][566]

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Section: Effects Of Contact On Arousal Emotional Expression and Thementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Effects Of Contact On Arousal Emotional Expression and Thementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Effects Of Contact On Arousal Emotional Expression and Thementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Effects Of Contact On Arousal Emotional Expression and Thementioning

confidence: 99%

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Emotion Regulation Via Maternal Touch

Hertenstein

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2001

Infancy

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“…Importantly, researchers have examined the effects of another sense modality, touch, on infant responses during face-to-face interactions. Findings from the studies indicate that oneand-a-half to three-month-old infants made more eye contact, smiled more, produced more vocalizations, and cried less during face-to-face interactions that included an experimenter touching the infants' legs than interactions that did not include touching (Pelaez-Nogueras, Gewirtz, Field, Cigales, Malphurs, Clasky, & Sanchez, 1996) and that touch provided during a SF episode led to greater frequency of smiling and less frequency of crying in infants of depressed mothers than infants of non-depressed mothers (Pelaez-Nogueras, Field, Hossain, & Pickens, 1996). Thus, very young infants are sensitive to tactile stimulation in the context of face-to-face interactions and tactile stimulation may moderate the effects of neutral and non-responsive expression during the SF episode.…”

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The Role of Contingency and Gaze Direction in the Emergence of Social Referencing

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Massage intervention for promoting mental and physical health in infants aged under six months

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Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

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BackgroundInfant massage is increasingly being used in the community for low-risk babies and their primary care givers. Anecdotal claims suggest benefits for sleep, respiration, elimination and the reduction of colic and wind. Infant massage is also thought to reduce infant stress and promote positive parent-infant interaction. ObjectivesThe aim of this review was to assess the effectiveness of infant massage in promoting infant physical and mental health in population samples.

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Infants' preference for touch stimulation in face-to-face interactions

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Emotion Regulation Via Maternal Touch

Emotion Regulation Via Maternal Touch

The Role of Contingency and Gaze Direction in the Emergence of Social Referencing

Massage intervention for promoting mental and physical health in infants aged under six months

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