Relations of Early Goal‐Blockage Response and Gender to Subsequent Tantrum Behavior

Infants and their mothers participated in a longitudinal study of the sequelae of infant goal‐blockage responses. Four‐month‐old infants participated in a standard contingency learning and goal‐blockage procedure during which anger and sad facial expressions to the blockage were coded. When infants were 12 and 20 months old, mothers completed a questionnaire about their children’s tantrums. Tantrum scores increased with age and boys tended to...