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Temperament and the Reactions to Unfamiliarity

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Jerome Kagan·1997·Child Development
DOI 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1997.tb01931.x
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The behavioral reactions to unfamiliar events are basic phenomena in all vertebrates. Four-month-old infants who show a low threshold to become distressed and motorically aroused to unfamiliar stimuli are more likely than others to become fearful and subdued during early childhood, whereas infants who show a high arousal threshold are more likely to become bold and sociable. After presenting some developmental correlates and trajectories of these 2 temperamental biases, I consider their implications for psychopathology and the relation between propositions containing psychological and biological concepts.

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Authors
Kagan, J.
Venue
Child Development
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published
1997-02
Volume
68
Issue
1
Pages
139
ISSN
0009-3920 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1111/j.1467-8624.1997.tb01931.x
OpenAlex
W2081473929
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512
References
28
FWCI
12.16
Type
journal article
Language
en
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