CoChat
Sign Up
Cited by 436Infant Health and DevelopmentStress Responses and CortisolTactile and Sensory Interactions

The DOI matches its Crossref record; 38 of the 38 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.

Touch attenuates infants' physiological reactivity to stress

Feldman, Ruth, Singer, Magi, Zagoory, Orna·2010·Developmental Science
DOI 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00890.x
Open this paper in CoChat — free account

Abstract

Animal studies demonstrate that maternal touch and contact regulate infant stress, and handling during periods of maternal deprivation attenuates the stress response. To measure the effects of touch on infant stress reactivity during simulated maternal deprivation, 53 dyads were tested in two paradigms: still‐face (SF) and still‐face with maternal touch (SF+T). Maternal and infant cortisol levels were sampled at baseline, reactivity, and recovery and mother’s and infant’s cardiac vagal tone were measured during the free play, still‐face, and reunion episodes of the procedure. Cortisol reactivity was higher among infants in the SF condition and while cortisol decreased at recovery for infants in the SF+T, it further increased for those in the SF. Vagal tone showed a greater suppression when SF was not accompanied by maternal touch. Touch synchrony during free play was associated with higher infant vagal tone, whereas touch myssynchrony – maternal tactile stimulation while the infant gaze averts – correlated with higher maternal and infant cortisol. In humans, as in mammals, the provision of touch during moments of maternal unavailability reduces infants’ physiological reactivity to stress.

Overview

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00890.x

Cites

38 of 38 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Verification

Claims the paper makes

This paper’s full text isn’t openly available, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Citations

Cites

Show all 38 references

Research works printed but not linked: 3

  1. 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2003.tb00343.x · DOI · Paper page
  2. Gianino A., 1986, Stress and coping, 47
  3. Porges S.W., 1985, Method and apparatus for evaluating rhythmic oscillations in periodic physiological response system

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Items 401–433 of 433

Related

See all

Metadata

Authors
Feldman, R., Singer, M., & Zagoory, O.
Affiliations
Bar-Ilan University (IL)
Corresponding author
Feldman, Ruth
ORCID
Feldman, Ruth
Venue
Developmental Science
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2010-02-02
Volume
13
Issue
2
Pages
271-278
ISSN
  • 1363-755X (ISSN-L)
  • 1467-7687
DOI
10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00890.x
OpenAlex
W2139703134
Semantic Scholar
ea8d6c7e5f4e38a3c7523178d12ad12d177bdc67
Cited by
436
References
38
Citations by year
2026: 18 · 2025: 23 · 2024: 31 · 2023: 31 · 2022: 27 · 2021: 44 · 2020: 24 · 2019: 57 · 2018: 30 · 2017: 24 · 2016: 26 · 2015: 27 · 2014: 16 · 2013: 19 · 2012: 17
FWCI
31.69
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor (vor)
Locations
  • Developmental Science (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • National Science Foundation
  • Israel Science Foundation
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Infant Health and Development
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Tactile and Sensory Interactions
Keywords
maternal touch, cortisol, vagal tone, still-face paradigm, maternal deprivation, gaze aversion, physiological stress response, mother-infant dyads
MeSH terms
Adaptation, Psychological, Adult, Child Development, Female, Heart, Humans, Hydrocortisone, Infant, Male, Maternal Deprivation, Mother-Child Relations, Saliva, Stress, Psychological, Touch, Vagus Nerve, Infant Behavior, Young Adult

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review