ABSTRACT
The current work on inhibited and uninhibited children began in the spring of 1957 at the Fels Research Institute on the campus of Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Two strategies of inquiry into temperamental phenomena can be pursued during this transitional period when neuroscience and psychology have not made sufficient intellectual contact and the constructs of one domain are not closely mapped onto those of the other. The major phenomena of psychology—behaviors, cognitive processes, and emotions— are so context-bound that scientists are frustrated in their attempt to freeze-frame a broad generalization. Two premises guided scientist's research. First, the development of the profile that defines each type requires the contribution of both physiology and experience. A second premise, which embryologists appreciate, is that children with similar surface profiles can belong to different groups.
