Heather Carrington

Who they are

The work of Heather Carrington reaches this site through the paper listed below. On this site the name is tied to Jealousy.

Key papers

Hart, S., & Carrington, H. (2002). Jealousy in 6-month-old infants. Infancy, 3(3), 395-402. What it reports: Thirty-two six-month-old infants watched their mothers attend in turn to a lifelike baby doll and to a book. The infants showed more negative reactions when the attention went to the doll, which the authors read as an early form of jealousy.

Key ideas

Jealousy: The feeling that a valued bond or share of attention is moving toward a rival, seen in experiments from infancy onward.

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