Criticizes impressionistic or outdated measures of socioeconomic status, recommends the Duncan Socioeconomic Index and the Siegel Prestige Scale, and describes a strategy for measuring household or family SES when household composition and characteristics vary. (Author/DB)

Contrary to the deterministic nature of the adipocyte- number hypothesis, correlations between adiposity data recorded during infancy and data recorded during the school- age period or later are very low. There is no convincing evidence the obese infant has more than a slight tendency to become an obese adult. (Author/MP)

Attachment outcomes of 31 maltreatment cases (involving extreme neglect or abuse), selected from a total poverty sample of 267 high-risk mothers and their children, were compared to those of a subsample of 33 cases with a history of excellent care. Attachment was assessed when infants were 12 and 18 months old. (Author/MP)

Differences in attachment, affiliative, and exploratory behaviors in the presence of substitute caregivers v a stranger were examined in light of differences in the physical quality of centers and the level of caregiver involvement. (Author/MP)

Evaluates the effects of continuous lumbar epidural anesthesia on the newborn and on the developing mother- infant relationship. (Author/MP)

To measure characteristic levels of energy output at the very beginning of life, the activity and crying patterns of 72 normal neonates were monitored for 1-3 days by an electronic activity monitor. (Author/MP)

Employed a series of sorting tasks with 80 subjects (7-20 years old) to determine whether children and adolescents make a conceptual distinction between events defined as personal matters and issues of morality or social convention. (Author/MP)

Boys' and girls' understanding of the emotions of others and of their own emotional reactions to emotion in others was assessed with kindergarten and second-grade children. (Author/MP)

Using the objective technique of increased mark-directed responses as evidence of self-recognition, this study investigated the relationship between cognitive and affective development among young retarded children. (Author/MP)

While viewing a televised drama with second-grade children, adults stated implicit relationships between important explicitly portrayed events. Children who heard the facilitating commentary scored significantly better on understanding of implicit program content related to the adult's statements than did children who heard neutral comments.…