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The Interpretation of Individual Differences in Rhesus Monkey Infants

The Interpretation of Individual Differences in Rhesus Monkey Infants THE INTERPRETATION OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN RHESUS MONKEY INFANTS by M. J. A. SIMPSON and S. HOWE 1) (MRC Unit on the Development and Integration of Behaviour, University of Cambridge, Madingley, United Kingdom) (With 2 Figures) (Acc. 6-VI-1979) INTRODUCTION In studying the social development of rhesus monkey infants, a very large number of different measures of the relationships the infants have with their mothers (e.g. HmDE & HERRMANN, 1977) and others (e.g. WHITE & HINDE, 1975) could be used. This paper is concerned with the extent to which such measures, for 8 week-old infants, can be classed into groups, with members of each group being correlated relatively highly with each other, but less highly with those of other groups. Such grouping could be a powerful method of data reduction. For example, if a number of measures reflecting maternal protectiveness varied together, and if every member of this group were inversely correlated with the members of another group, representing maternal rejection, then we could regard what we originally believed to be two groups as one, and we would only need to use one measure to represent all of them. If, however, we found that how protective a rhesus monkey http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Behaviour Brill

The Interpretation of Individual Differences in Rhesus Monkey Infants

Howe, S.; Simpson, M.J.A.
Behaviour , Volume 72 (3-4): 127 – Jan 1, 1980
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THE INTERPRETATION OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN RHESUS MONKEY INFANTS by M. J. A. SIMPSON and S. HOWE 1) (MRC Unit on the Development and Integration of Behaviour, University of Cambridge, Madingley, United Kingdom) (With 2 Figures) (Acc. 6-VI-1979) INTRODUCTION In studying the social development of rhesus monkey infants, a very large number of different measures of the relationships the infants have with their mothers (e.g. HmDE & HERRMANN, 1977) and others (e.g. WHITE & HINDE, 1975) could be used. This paper is concerned with the extent to which such measures, for 8 week-old infants, can be classed into groups, with members of each group being correlated relatively highly with each other, but less highly with those of other groups. Such grouping could be a powerful method of data reduction. For example, if a number of measures reflecting maternal protectiveness varied together, and if every member of this group were inversely correlated with the members of another group, representing maternal rejection, then we could regard what we originally believed to be two groups as one, and we would only need to use one measure to represent all of them. If, however, we found that how protective a rhesus monkey

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