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Download full textRieser-Danner, Loretta A.; Baran, Joan – 1993
This study attempted to distinguish between the ambivalent response of shyness and the more potent negative affect of fear in infancy. Sixty infants between 9 and 12 months of age participated in two laboratory situations: a nonsocial situation involving the presentation of a mechanical toy; and a social situation involving a standardized stranger…
Descriptors: Facial Expressions, Fear, Infant Behavior, Infants
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Direct linkWells, Karen – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2005
Children's fears about strangers are often intense and vivid. While various educational, policing and media initiatives have made children suspicious of strangers, the question of who the figure of the stranger is has not been addressed. The sociology of the stranger anticipates that visible minorities are marked out as strangers. However, for the…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Familiarity, Stranger Reactions, Racial Factors
