Tiffany Field, PhD is on the faculty of Fielding Graduate University and University of Miami /Miller School of Medicine. She is the author of other books including Infancy (1990) and Touch (2014).

Alan Fogel, PhD is a Professor of Psychology Emeritus at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. He was an active contributor to research on the development of non-verbal behavior, emotion and communication during infancy for 40 years. He is also a licensed massage therapist, a Rosen Method Bodywork practitioner and Certified Senior Teacher, and the founding editor of the Rosen Method International Journal. His most recent books are Infancy: Infant, Family and Society, 7th Edition (with Daniel Messinger, 2024), Restorative Embodiment and Resilience (2021), and Body Sense: The Science and Practice of Embodied Self-Awareness (2013).

Preface. Part I - Early Infancy: Face to Face Interactions 1. The Expression and Regulation of Emotion: A Lifespan Perspective Carol Zaner Malatesta 2. Affect Dynamics in Early Infancy: Affective Tolerance Alan Fogel 3. Alteration of Mother and Infant Behavior and Heart Rate During a Still-Face Perturbation of Face-to-Face Interaction Sherilyn Adler Stoller and Tiffany Field 4. Maternal and Infant Affective Exchange: Patterns of Adaptation Edward Z. Tronick, Margaret Ricks and Jeffrey F. Cohn 5. Affective Displays of High-Risk Infants During Early Interactions Tiffany Field Part II - Older Infants and Toddlers: Play Interactions 6. Facial Expressions of Infants and Toddlers: A Descriptive Analysis E. Virginia Demos 7. Affective Exchanges Between Normal and Handicapped Infants and Their Mothers Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Michael Lewis 8. The Socialization of Emotions Michael Lewis and Linda Michalson Part III - Methodological Approaches to Data and Analyses 9. Affectivity and Reference: Concepts, Methods, and Techniques in the Study of Communication Development of 6-to-18-Month-Old Infants Lauren Adamson and Roger Bakeman 10. The Moral Philosophy of Microanalysis Kenneth Kaye 11. Young Infants' Hand and Finger Expressions: An Analysis of Category Reliability Thomas Edward Hannan 12. Time-Series Analysis of Social-Interaction Data John Gottman, F. Thomas Rose and Gwendolyn Mettetal. Author Index. Subject Index.