“Moms are happier”. Well, yes, the mothers in the graduated extinction group did have lower stress and greater mood at the end of the 3-month period by which this was assessed. The problem is that the changes in this group were the lowest of the three groups. The greatest change was...
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Even more telling, though, was that while the infants had ceased crying while going to sleep, presumably having learned to “self-settle”, their cortisol levels continued to spike. In fact, their cortisol levels were exactly the same as they were on day one when they were separated from th...