Intense crying in East-Asian infants may reflect cultural norms, not insecure attachment, study suggests

Intense crying in East-Asian infants may reflect cultural norms, not insecure attachment, study suggests

A study examining cultural characteristics of infants’ behavior found that Korean and Japanese infants cry more when separated from their mothers and left alone in an unfamiliar room, compared to U.S. and Czech children. The paper was published in the International Journal of Behavioral Development. The main theoretical framework in psychology used to explain emotional bonds between humans and their importance throughout life is attachment theor…