• Emotional Infant Face Processing in Women With Major Depression and Expecting Parents With Depressive Symptoms 

      Bohne, Agnes; Nordahl, Dag; Lindahl, Åsne; Ulvenes, Pål Gunnar; Wang, Catharina Elisabeth Arfwedson; Pfuhl, Gerit (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-07-02)
      Processing of emotional facial expressions is of great importance in interpersonal relationships. Aberrant engagement with facial expressions, particularly an engagement with sad faces, loss of engagement with happy faces, and enhanced memory of sadness has been found in depression. Since most studies used adult faces, we here examined if such biases also occur in processing of infant faces in those ...
    • The Tromso Infant Faces Database (TIF): development, validation and application to assess parenting experience on clarity and intensity ratings 

      Maack, Jana Kristin; Bohne, Agnes; Nordahl, Dag; Livsdatter, Lina; Lindahl, Åsne; Øvervoll, Morten; Wang, Catharina Elisabeth Arfwedson; Pfuhl, Gerit (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2017-03-24)
      Newborns and infants are highly depending on successfully communicating their needs; e.g., through crying and facial expressions. Although there is a growing interest in the mechanisms of and possible influences on the recognition of facial expressions in infants, heretofore there exists no validated database of emotional infant faces. In the present article we introduce a standardized and freely ...