Primiparous and multiparous monkey mothers in a mildly stressful social situation: First three months
✍ Scribed by G. Mitchell; C. W. Stevens
- Book ID
- 102816733
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1968
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 586 KB
- Volume
- 1
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0012-1630
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✦ Synopsis
Eight primiparous rhesus monkey mothers were matched with 8 multiparous rhesus monkey mothers with regard to date of delivery and sex of infant. Each niotheiwas housed and tested individually with her infant to preclude the compensating effects of peer experience. The test situation involved transporting each mother-infant pair from the home cage to a test cage of similar size where the pair was visually exposed to a strange mother-infant pair and human observers. The prirniparous mothers looked at. threatened, fear grimaced, and lip-smacked to these social stimuli significantly more frequently than did the multiparous females. In addition, the inexperienced mothers stroked or petted their infants significantly more frequently than the experienced mothers. T h e results support the idea that primiparous mothers are more "anxious" or concerned for their infants' welfare than are multiparous mothers.