“…However, support for this prediction is lacking. In fact, it is markedly absent in research on experimentally induced jealousy (Draghi-Lorenz, 1998;Hart, this volume, Chapter 4;Hart & Carrington, 2002;Hart, Field, del Valle, & Letourneau, 1998a;Masciuch & Kienapple, 1993), in which the object of maternal attention is manipulated (see Chapter 4 for more detail on jealousy evocation) and in which mothers generally had not been pregnant, and so these children had not been systematically exposed to maternal separation or diminished quality of mother-child interactions. Nonetheless, they were most upset when the object of their mothers' attention was another child.…”