Hello Colleagues, thought you may be interested in this study and the comments of James Prescott.warmly, Carolyn HastieInteresting study....Study: Maternal Care Affects Adult Stresshttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030608/ap_on_he_me/stressed_babies
and as James Prescott says:
7 June 2003
Another rat study. The relationship between somatosensory affectional
stimulation and low adult aggression/violence and stress in rodents and lower
mammals have been known for some fifty years. See also Ashley Montagu's classic
text on Touching, evidently not known by Professor Meaney.
The author observes:
However, it's unclear how
the findings translate to humans, especially whether kissing and cuddling would
be the equivalent behavior, experts said.
"That's where we start to become cautious," Meaney said. "In the rat, the key input is tactile, so it's very tempting to say tactile stimulation could do the same for humans, but we don't know that."
"That's where we start to become cautious," Meaney said. "In the rat, the key input is tactile, so it's very tempting to say tactile stimulation could do the same for humans, but we don't know that."
But we do not that and have known that for well over 30 years in the
primate--not rats. See the Rock a Bye Baby documentary that identifies the
vestibular-cerebellar system as being of primary importance in primate bonding
and the prevention of juvenile/ adult violence at the following website plus the
cross-cultural studies on tribal cultures that confirm this relationship.
Contemporary science has a way of forgetting its own history and re-inventing
the wheel.
James W. Prescott, Ph.D.
http:/www.violence.de
