The Discrepancy Hypothesis of Attention and Affect in Infants

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1952 • 9,556 citations

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Play, Dreams And Imitation In Childhood

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1972 • 2,371 citations

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1972 • 1,724 citations

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The effect of the infant on its caregiver

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Intelligence and Experience

1962 • 1,220 citations

Somatic response patterning and stress : some revisions of activation theory

1967 • 1,065 citations

Curiosity and Exploration

1966 • 1,049 citations

Heart-rate change as a component of the orienting response.

1966 • 1,022 citations

Affectional Response in the Infant Monkey

1959 • 914 citations

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1967 • 732 citations

Operationism and the concept of perception.

1956 • 695 citations

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Expression of the emotions in man

1963 • 509 citations

Change and continuity in infancy

1971 • 494 citations

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1946 • 481 citations

Analysis of exploratory, manipulatory, and curiosity behaviors.

1957 • 453 citations

Arousal and reinforcement.

1967 • 388 citations

Aesthetics and Psychobiology

1974 • 386 citations

The ontogenesis of smiling and laughter: A perspective on the organization of development in infancy.

1976 • 383 citations

Intrinsic motivation and its role in psychological development

1965 • 371 citations

Ontogeny of memory.

1972 • 349 citations

A MICRO-ANALYSIS OF MOTHER-INFANT INTERACTION

1971 • 321 citations

Infant Visual Memory

1975 • 290 citations

Patterns of Fear Development During Infancy.

1970 • 204 citations

The Development of Laughter in the First Year of Life

1972 • 183 citations

THE DEVELOPMENT OF LAUGHTER IN THE FIRST YEAR OF LIFE

1972 • 179 citations

Motivation Inherent in Information Processing and Action

1963 • 159 citations

Specific and Diversive Exploration

1970 • 155 citations

Laughter in young children.

1973 • 152 citations

THE ONSET OF FEAR OF STRANGERS AND THE INCONGRUITY HYPOTHESIS

1966 • 151 citations

Individual differences in the infant's distribution of attention to stimulus discrepancy.

1970 • 133 citations

On heart rate responses and behavior: A reply to Elliott.

1974 • 129 citations

The origins of fear

1974 • 126 citations

Early childhood : the development of self-regulatory mechanisms

1971 • 125 citations

Infants' Reactions to Unfamiliar Persons and Novel Objects

1972 • 123 citations

Response to novelty as an indicator of visual discrimination in the human infant

1964 • 122 citations

Infant Attention and Discrimination: Methodological and Substantive Issues

1974 • 118 citations

A Developmental Study of Information Processing within the First Three Years of Life: Response Decrement to a Redundant Signal

1969 • 118 citations

Habituation in the Human Infant

1971 • 114 citations

Stimulus-schema discrepancy and attention in the infant

1967 • 106 citations

The orienting reflex and attention in cognitive development.

1968 • 105 citations

COGNITIVE PROCESSES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN'S APPRECIATION OF HUMOR

1966 • 104 citations

The Physical Environment: A Problem for a Psychology of Stimulation

1966 • 101 citations

Cognitive mastery and children's humor.

1974 • 100 citations

Exploratory Behavior and Human Development

1974 • 99 citations

On the need for relativism.

1967 • 96 citations

Infant habituation and generalization to differing degrees of stimulus novelty

1971 • 87 citations

ATTENTION IN THE INFANT: AVENUE TO THE STUDY OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

1971 • 80 citations

Cognitive Processes in the Development of Children's Appreciation of Humor

1966 • 78 citations

Discrepancy from adaptation level as a source of affect.

1958 • 77 citations

Pleasure Derived by Children from Cognitive Challenge and Mastery

1974 • 74 citations

Conditioned Head Rotation Reflexes in Infants in the First: Months of Life

1961 • 70 citations

Children's Appreciation of Humor: A Test of the Cognitive Congruency Principle

1976 • 67 citations

On the Cognitive Origins of Incongruity Humor: Fantasy Assimilation versus Reality Assimilation

1972 • 66 citations

The infant's free entry into a new environment

1969 • 62 citations

Inheritance of Behavior in Infants

1963 • 61 citations

Pleasure Derived by Children from Cognitive Challenge and Mastery

1974 • 60 citations

Magnitude of Discrepancy and the Distribution of Attention in Infants

1977 • 52 citations

YOUNG CHILDREN IN A NEW SITUATION WITH AND WITHOUT THEIR MOTHERS

1968 • 48 citations

Attention in infants as a function of magnitude of discrepancy and habituation rate

1969 • 46 citations

Infant Smiling to Nonsocial Stimuli and the Recognition Hypothesis

1971 • 45 citations

Differential Visual Behavior to Human and Humanoid Faces in Early Infancy.

1970 • 44 citations

ATTENTIONAL RESPONSES OF FIVE-MONTH GIRLS TO DISCREPANT AUDITORY STIMULI

1970 • 42 citations

Smiling and Vocalizing: A Cognitive Emphasis.

1972 • 42 citations

Habituation Rate and the Infant's Response to Visual Discrepancies

1973 • 41 citations

Infants' Visual Attention to Varying Degrees of Novelty

1974 • 39 citations

Newborn attention: Differential response decrement to visual stimuli

1970 • 38 citations

Infants' Visual Attention to Varying Degrees of Novelty

1974 • 38 citations

Attentional Responses of Five-Month Girls to Discrepant Auditory Stimuli

1970 • 38 citations

Young Children in a New Situation with and without Their Mothers

1968 • 37 citations

Habituation Rate and the Infant's Response to Visual Discrepancies

1973 • 36 citations

Newborn habituation to visual stimuli: A sex difference in novelty detection

1974 • 34 citations

Set and uncertainty as factors influencing anticipatory cardiovascular responding in humans.

1971 • 31 citations

Discrepancy hypotheses: Methodological and theoretical considerations.

1971 • 30 citations

Infant smiling to nonsocial stimuli and the recognition hypothesis.

1971 • 29 citations

Smiling and Vocalization in Infants as Indices of Perceptual-Cognitive Processes.

1972 • 28 citations

Psychological reactivity to discrepant events: Support for the curvilinear hypothesis

1973 • 21 citations

Contour Effects and Pattern Preferences in Infants: A Reply to Greenberg and O'Donnell (1972)

1974 • 15 citations

Discrepancy and attention in the five-month infant.

1972 • 15 citations

Contour Effects and Pattern Preferences in Infants: A Reply to Greenberg and O'Donnell (1972)

1974 • 14 citations

Encoding and retrieval of perceptual memories after long-term familiarization and the infant's response to discrepancy.

1973 • 13 citations

Effect of familiar and unfamiliar environments on proximity behavior of young children

1970 • 12 citations

Visual Habituation and Preference for Novelty in Five-Week-Old Infants.

1975 • 7 citations

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