How do parents’ cultural values affect their babies’ temperament?
Maria (Masha) Gartstein, professor of psychology, is on a multi-year quest to find out.
For the past five years, Gartstein has compared the behavior of babies from around the globe to learn how parents’ values and expectations influence the development of their toddlers’ behavior and overall temperament.
A greater understanding of these values and their impact on temperament development will help psychologists devise fine-tuned approaches to prevent infant temperament issues from becoming behavioral problems later in life.
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