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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Psychol. 2019 Feb 11;55(5):1034–1045. doi: 10.1037/dev0000689

Table 2.

Descriptive statistics for infant and mother affect and dyadic behavioral synchrony in each episode of the FFSF

Normal Play Still-Face Reunion
N M (SD) N M (SD) N M (SD)
Infant % Positive 126 .27 (.23) 123 .06 (.13) 116 .23 (.24)
Infant % Negative 126 .16 (.24) 123 .36 (.36) 116 .25 (.32)
Mother % Positive 125 .84 (.16) 115 .78 (.21)
Mother % Negative 125 .01 (.05) 115 .03 (.10)
Behavioral Synchrony 122 .20 (.19) 107 .20 (.16)

Note. % Positive and % Negative refer to the percentage of valid time infants or mothers spent displaying positive or negative affect. Mother behavior was not coded during the still-face episode, when mothers are instructed to pose a still-face.