Which of the following statements about the studies of mutual regulation and emotional communication is true?
A. Mutual regulation in 2- to 9-month-old infants is measured using the still-face paradigm.
B. Infants do not take any steps to calm the dysregulation caused when their mothers do not use facial expressions to respond to them.
C. During the still-face episode, children tend to smile more and express less negative affect.
D. Infants take an active part in regulating their emotional states only after the age of 1.
Answer: A
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. Jim is conducting his first study, examining gender differences in smiling. (He predicts that women will smile more than men while judging three cartoons.) Jim serves as the experimenter, showing participants the three cartoons and recording their facial expressions. However, Jim inadvertently smiles more himself when he reads the instructions to the female subjects than when he reads them to the male subjects. His own smiling can potentially influence his results, but it is not a variable he wishes to study. His own smiling has threatened his study’s _______.
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