Skip to comments.
Babies can be mean-spirited: psychological study
The Slideshow ^
| 3/13/13
| Mike Krumboltz
Posted on 03/13/2013 6:27:14 PM PDT by EBH
Is your baby secretly plotting against you? Maybe. A study from the University of British Columbia's Centre for Infant Cognition found that babies have a bit of a mean streak when it comes to people they perceive as different.
In an experiment, babies were given a choice of snacks, either graham crackers or green beans (apparently some babies chose green beans--go figure). Researchers found that when babies study their surroundings, they show a lot of interest in people with different tastes and preferences.
The researchers conducted a puppet show for the subjects, ages 9 and 14 months. Puppet 1 "ate" the same snack that the baby chose, while Puppet 2 chose the other snack. Puppet 1 acted either friendly, indifferent, or aggressively toward Puppet 2.
Here's where it gets interesting. Researchers found that when given a choice of which puppet to play with afterward, "almost all the infants at both ages preferred the character who harmed the dissimilar puppet over the character who helped him," according to a press
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor; Society
KEYWORDS: abortion; deathpanels; obamacare; zerocare
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-25 next last
First study that shows we are hard-wired for biases...
1
posted on
03/13/2013 6:27:14 PM PDT
by
EBH
To: EBH
ANYONE who was ever a kid KNOWS THIS.
To: EBH
What a shock, libs. We call it original sin.
To: EBH
and it is ok to proudly show that “PG” your dad tattooed on your a$$
To: EBH
Ok, who will be the first to post a picture of Stewie?
5
posted on
03/13/2013 6:31:24 PM PDT
by
svcw
(Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
To: EBH
Babies can be mean-spirited?? Of course. The White house showed us that.
6
posted on
03/13/2013 6:33:52 PM PDT
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(Someday our schools will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
To: EBH; a fool in paradise; Slings and Arrows; JoeProBono; Daffynition
7
posted on
03/13/2013 6:36:22 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
To: EBH; a fool in paradise; Slings and Arrows; JoeProBono; Daffynition
8
posted on
03/13/2013 6:37:04 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
To: ReformationFan
You beat me to it. I was going to say that we call that sin nature.
To: EBH
I say babies are just all about themselves. Nothing more, nothing less, values come with age and teaching.
10
posted on
03/13/2013 7:06:47 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: EBH
Babies cannot be “mean spirited”. They are simply selfish/self-centered.
That’s not exactly a shock. They lack the cognitive development and training for super-ego behavior.
To: svcw
12
posted on
03/13/2013 7:13:48 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: EBH
And then they grow up mean women!
13
posted on
03/13/2013 7:14:20 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
To: Revolting cat!
Then are the exceptions:
This is Tereska, a child in a residence for disturbed children, grew up in a concentration camp. She drew a picture of "home"
14
posted on
03/13/2013 7:18:43 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
To: EBH
My oldest Sister is very bossy. She has always been that way.
I recently saw a picture of her with Mother and Daddy. This would have been around 1937 when she was around one and a half. They are sitting on a picnic blanket and she is on Daddy’s knee.
Sure enough, she had that bossy look even back then. I think part of it was that she was the oldest but that was before she had any siblings. It was just her nature.
15
posted on
03/13/2013 7:19:47 PM PDT
by
yarddog
(Per Ardua Ad Alta.)
To: Revolting cat!; EBH; a fool in paradise; JoeProBono; Daffynition
16
posted on
03/13/2013 7:22:16 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Revolting cat!
Making up for *both* of our disturbing images.
17
posted on
03/13/2013 7:22:46 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
To: Slings and Arrows
18
posted on
03/13/2013 7:38:40 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
To: Daffynition
Thank God I don’t have nightmares. That would prompt one.
19
posted on
03/13/2013 7:53:17 PM PDT
by
CrazyIvan
(Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receipt.)
To: JoeProBono
20
posted on
03/13/2013 8:01:30 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-25 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson