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Mothers’ and fathers’ lateral biases for holding their newborn infants: A study of images from the World Wide Web

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Pages 64-86 | Received 29 Jun 2006, Published online: 17 Feb 2007

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Lauren Julius Harris, Rodrigo A. Cárdenas, Nathaniel D. Stewart & Jason B. Almerigi. (2019) Are only infants held more often on the left? If so, why? Testing the attention-emotion hypothesis with an infant, a vase, and two chimeric tests, one “emotional,” one not. Laterality 24:1, pages 65-97.
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Gillian S. Forrester, Rachael Davis, Denis Mareschal, Gianluca Malatesta & Brenda K. Todd. (2019) The left cradling bias: An evolutionary facilitator of social cognition?. Cortex 118, pages 116-131.
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Tsugumi Takano & Ken Mogi. (2019) Adult attachment style and lateral preferences in physical proximity. Biosystems 181, pages 88-94.
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Gianluca Malatesta, Daniele Marzoli, Chiara Piccioni & Luca Tommasi. (2019) The Relationship Between the Left-Cradling Bias and Attachment to Parents and Partner. Evolutionary Psychology 17:2, pages 147470491984811.
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Lee Ellis, Siti Nor Awang & Stephanie Larkin. (2013) Sidedness in Carrying Objects Other than Infants Resembles Sidedness in Infant Cradling: A Two Nation Study of Gender Differences. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior 37:4, pages 231-244.
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Rodrigo A. Cárdenas, Lauren Julius Harris & Mark W. Becker. (2013) Sex differences in visual attention toward infant faces. Evolution and Human Behavior 34:4, pages 280-287.
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Karina Karenina, Andrey Giljov, Dmitry Glazov & Yegor Malashichev. (2013) Social laterality in wild beluga whale infants: comparisons between locations, escort conditions, and ages. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 67:7, pages 1195-1204.
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Susanne E. Suter, Harriet J. Huggenberger, Terry D. Blumenthal & Hartmut Schachinger. (2011) Differential effect of ill-being and chronic stress on cradling behavior of first and multi-time parents. Infant Behavior and Development 34:1, pages 170-178.
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Céline Scola. (2010) Le biais de portage : importance de la relation mère-enfant. Enfance 2009:04, pages 433.
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Céline Scola. (2009) Le biais de portage : importance de la relation mère-enfant. Enfance N° 4:4, pages 433-457.
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Harriet J. Huggenberger, Susanne E. Suter, Ester Reijnen & Hartmut Schachinger. (2009) Cradling side preference is associated with lateralized processing of baby facial expressions in females. Brain and Cognition 70:1, pages 67-72.
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Julien Donnot, Jacques Vauclair & Vincent Bréjard. (2008) Newborn right-holding is related to depressive symptoms in bottle-feeding mothers but not in breastfeeding mothers. Infant Behavior and Development 31:3, pages 352-360.
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