The "still-face paradigm" is a widely used laboratory procedure for studying emotional communication between infants and caregivers.
The Still-Face Paradigm (SFP) empowers scientists to look at the nature of mother-newborn child cooperations. In ordinary newborn children, an exemplary still-face effect (SFE) has been affirmed whereby babies exhibit diminished positive affect (PA), reduced gaze (GA), and increased negative affect (NA). As of late, the SFP has been utilized to inspect the impact of maternal melancholy upon newborn child conduct.