BACKGROUND There is evidence that psychopathology in mothers may be associated with dysfunctional mother-infant interactions. AIMS To investigate mother-infant relations when mothers have borderline personality disorder. METHOD Eight mothers with borderline personality disorder and twelve mothers without psychiatric disorder were videotaped interacting with their 2-month-old infants in thre...

Social anxiety, and its most extreme condition, social anxiety disorder, is a common international problem today. The recent Covid-19 pandemic has brought relief, at least temporarily, to many sufferers. decrease in face-to-face interactions the use of face masks have reduced usually daily discomfort those interactions. But it also frozen time practice their skills served as safe refuge from ex...

A hallmark behavioral feature of fragile X syndrome (FXS) is the propensity for individuals with the syndrome to exhibit significant impairments in social gaze during interactions with others. However, previous studies employing eye tracking methodology to investigate this phenomenon have been limited to presenting static photographs or videos of social interactions rather than employing a real...

Despite recognition that the internet is a critical context for friendships among youth, little known about whether young adults perceive differences in their interactions with close friends across online and offline (i.e., face-to-face) settings. The current study sought to address this gap by qualitatively investigating adults’ perceptions of how social differ contexts. A large sample Austral...

The Internet has greatly expanded the ways in which we communicate and interact with others. This chapter explores how are our perceptions of others and of ourselves effected by these new ways of communicating. The first section examines the nature of computer-mediated communication (CMC) as viewed by several prominent theoretical models, exploring how these models assess possible sources of ac...

In order to obtain repeated measurements of depression in an efficient and relatively inexpensive design, a mixture of face-to-face interviews and mail questionnaires was employed. The aims of the study were to examine mode effects of face-to-face interviews versus mail questionnaires on depression scores and to test potential interactions between mode of data collection and sex and age of the ...