Anxious about rejection, avoidant of neglect: Infant marmosets tune their attachment based on individual caregiver’s parenting style
Abstract Children’s secure attachment with their primary caregivers is crucial for physical, cognitive, and emotional maturation. Yet, the causal links between specific parenting behaviors and infant attachment patterns are not fully understood. Here we report infant attachment in New World monkeys...
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| author | Saori Yano-Nashimoto Anna Truzzi Kazutaka Shinozuka Ayako Y. Murayama Takuma Kurachi Keiko Moriya-Ito Hironobu Tokuno Eri Miyazawa Gianluca Esposito Hideyuki Okano Katsuki Nakamura Atsuko Saito Kumi O. Kuroda |
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| description | Abstract Children’s secure attachment with their primary caregivers is crucial for physical, cognitive, and emotional maturation. Yet, the causal links between specific parenting behaviors and infant attachment patterns are not fully understood. Here we report infant attachment in New World monkeys common marmosets, characterized by shared infant care among parents and older siblings and complex vocal communications. By integrating natural variations in parenting styles and subsecond-scale microanalyses of dyadic vocal and physical interactions, we demonstrate that marmoset infants signal their needs through context-dependent call use and selective approaches toward familiar caregivers. The infant attachment behaviors are tuned to each caregiver’s parenting style; infants use negative calls when carried by rejecting caregivers and selectively avoid neglectful and rejecting caregivers. Family-deprived infants fail to develop such adaptive uses of attachment behaviors. With these similarities with humans, marmosets offer a promising model for investigating the biological mechanisms of attachment security. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3d6d07b6e58848eb97b4ddcfe58af5292024-03-05T19:59:58ZengNature PortfolioCommunications Biology2399-36422024-02-017111510.1038/s42003-024-05875-6Anxious about rejection, avoidant of neglect: Infant marmosets tune their attachment based on individual caregiver’s parenting styleSaori Yano-Nashimoto0Anna Truzzi1Kazutaka Shinozuka2Ayako Y. Murayama3Takuma Kurachi4Keiko Moriya-Ito5Hironobu Tokuno6Eri Miyazawa7Gianluca Esposito8Hideyuki Okano9Katsuki Nakamura10Atsuko Saito11Kumi O. Kuroda12Laboratory for Affiliative Social Behavior, RIKEN Center for Brain ScienceLaboratory for Affiliative Social Behavior, RIKEN Center for Brain ScienceLaboratory for Affiliative Social Behavior, RIKEN Center for Brain ScienceLaboratory for Affiliative Social Behavior, RIKEN Center for Brain ScienceLaboratory for Affiliative Social Behavior, RIKEN Center for Brain ScienceDepartment of Brain & Neurosciences, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical ScienceDepartment of Brain & Neurosciences, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical ScienceLaboratory for Affiliative Social Behavior, RIKEN Center for Brain ScienceLaboratory for Affiliative Social Behavior, RIKEN Center for Brain ScienceDepartment of Physiology, Keio University School of MedicineCenter for the Evolutionary Origins of Human Behavior, Kyoto UniversityLaboratory for Affiliative Social Behavior, RIKEN Center for Brain ScienceLaboratory for Affiliative Social Behavior, RIKEN Center for Brain ScienceAbstract Children’s secure attachment with their primary caregivers is crucial for physical, cognitive, and emotional maturation. Yet, the causal links between specific parenting behaviors and infant attachment patterns are not fully understood. Here we report infant attachment in New World monkeys common marmosets, characterized by shared infant care among parents and older siblings and complex vocal communications. By integrating natural variations in parenting styles and subsecond-scale microanalyses of dyadic vocal and physical interactions, we demonstrate that marmoset infants signal their needs through context-dependent call use and selective approaches toward familiar caregivers. The infant attachment behaviors are tuned to each caregiver’s parenting style; infants use negative calls when carried by rejecting caregivers and selectively avoid neglectful and rejecting caregivers. Family-deprived infants fail to develop such adaptive uses of attachment behaviors. With these similarities with humans, marmosets offer a promising model for investigating the biological mechanisms of attachment security.https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-05875-6 |
| spellingShingle | Saori Yano-Nashimoto Anna Truzzi Kazutaka Shinozuka Ayako Y. Murayama Takuma Kurachi Keiko Moriya-Ito Hironobu Tokuno Eri Miyazawa Gianluca Esposito Hideyuki Okano Katsuki Nakamura Atsuko Saito Kumi O. Kuroda Anxious about rejection, avoidant of neglect: Infant marmosets tune their attachment based on individual caregiver’s parenting style Communications Biology |
| title | Anxious about rejection, avoidant of neglect: Infant marmosets tune their attachment based on individual caregiver’s parenting style |
| title_full | Anxious about rejection, avoidant of neglect: Infant marmosets tune their attachment based on individual caregiver’s parenting style |
| title_fullStr | Anxious about rejection, avoidant of neglect: Infant marmosets tune their attachment based on individual caregiver’s parenting style |
| title_full_unstemmed | Anxious about rejection, avoidant of neglect: Infant marmosets tune their attachment based on individual caregiver’s parenting style |
| title_short | Anxious about rejection, avoidant of neglect: Infant marmosets tune their attachment based on individual caregiver’s parenting style |
| title_sort | anxious about rejection avoidant of neglect infant marmosets tune their attachment based on individual caregiver s parenting style |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-05875-6 |
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