Article
Children's 5-HTTLPR genotype moderates the link between maternal criticism and attentional biases specifically for facial displays of anger.
Cognition & emotion - 1 Sept 2011
Gibb Brandon E, Johnson Ashley L, Benas Jessica S, Uhrlass Dorothy J, Knopik Valerie S, McGeary John E
Abstract excerpt
Theorists have proposed that negative experiences in childhood may contribute to the development of experience-specific information-processing biases, including attentional biases. There are also clear genetic influences on cognitive processes, with evidence that polymorphisms in specific candidate genes may moderate the impact of environmental stress on attentional biases (e.g., a functional polymorphism in the...
Topics
- Adult
- Alleles
- Anger
- Attention
- Child
- Expressed Emotion
- Facial Expression
- Female
- Gene-Environment Interaction
- Genotype
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Mother-Child Relations