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What we need and cannot lay our finger on is some factor which will explain why some people are able to subject the affect of anxiety, in spite of its peculiar quality, to the normal workings of the mind, or which decides who is doomed to come to grief over that task [Freud, 1926, p. 150].
… in any one infant, the occurrence of fear of strangers [once it develops] varies greatly according to conditions… both occurrence and intensity depend in large measure on how far distant the stranger is, whether he approaches the infant and what else he does; they probably depend also on whether the infant is in familiar or strange surroundings and on whether he is ill or well, fatigued or fresh. Yet another variable, studied especially by Morgan and Ricciuti (1969), is whether an infant is on his mother's knee or away from her. From the age of eight months onwards this makes a big difference, an infant sitting four feet from his mother showing much more fear than when sitting on her knee; this finding is no doubt related to the fact that from eight months onwards an infant begins to use his