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Shirtcliff, Elizabeth A.; Phan, Jenny M.; Lubach, Gabriele R.; Crispen, Heather R.; Coe, Christopher L. – Developmental Psychology, 2013
The concept of fetal programming is based on the idea that the developmental trajectory of infants is adjusted in response to in utero conditions. In species with extended parental care, these prenatally derived tendencies are further substantiated by behavioral attributes of the mother during the postnatal period. We investigated the stability of…
Descriptors: Siblings, Animals, Pregnancy, Prenatal Influences
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Shachar-Dadon, Alice; Schulkin, Jay; Leshem, Micah – Developmental Psychology, 2009
The authors investigated whether adversity in a female, before she conceives, will influence the affective and social behavior of her progeny. Virgin female rats were either undisturbed (controls) or exposed to varied, unpredictable, stressors for 7 days (preconceptual stress [PCS]) and then either mated immediately after the end of the stress…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, Females, Interaction, Males