Ghosts in the nursery: An experimental investigation of a parent’s own maltreatment experience, attention to infant faces, and dyadic reciprocity.

Previous studies have shown that the experience of childhood maltreatment can influence recognition and processing of emotional cues and that these effects can extend into adulthood. Such alterations in cognitive processing may have important implications for processing of infant affect and parenting behavior. This study investigated whether the experience of childhood maltreatment altered attentional processing of infant faces in a community...