Infants who are from a rural family background tend to display negative emotions such as anger or frustration more frequently than their urban counterparts suggests a recent study in the Journal of Community Psychology. The study has shown that babies who are born in big cities are less likely to be fussy and are not as bothered by the limits set by their caregivers. Led by Washington State University psychologist Maria Gartstein and WSU graduate student Alyssa Neumann the study examines differences in infant temperament parent-child interactions and parenting stress between families of similar socioeconomic and racial composition in the Inland Northwest and the San