Posted on 07/04/2013 9:20:24 PM PDT by neverdem
Here's the link.
Another thing we did not need a study to figure out. Drop one unhappy baby into a room of content ones and everyone knows what happens.
Well, that’s what one would expect from humans being spiritual beings. To call them just “psychological machines” misses an entire dimension of reality of what humanness is.
This went beyond obviously downer moods and one baby raising an unhappy ruckus disturbing the peacefulness of other babies.
Scientists flabbergasted that babies... act human.
Dream on. Baby boys can recognize a baby girl’s mood?
You mean they can differentiate between Whhaaaaa!!!! and goo goo gaa gaa?
Amazing.
Sheez, I’ve known it since I was a baby!
Pfbbttthhh... Eggheads, Who Needs them?
I read the article. A baby hears a sad sound and knows to associate it with a sad face, or vice versa. Big whup. Every person instinctually makes happy faces and sounds to babies, we all know they react to that.
Grown men can't tell what a grown woman is thinking. So does that mean we lose skills as we mature ?
Birds do it, bees do it, even babies in the day care do it.
Wonder how much money was spent to discover the obvious ?
Ever watched two kids who haven’t formed language yet? Even though ‘we’ don’t understand their baby-babble, apparently both understand each other’s babble.
If I can get a grant, I would like to undertake a study to see what happens if you yell "SNAKE" in an elevator crowded with women.
Chances you’d probably get that grant if you were friends with Nancy Pelosi.
You omitted mention of the happy side. And that it was baby faces that were recognized. So yes, big whup (at least further than the instinctive way adults try to charm babies).
I want to see that video
Still doesn’t seem like anything that all of us don’t already know. Babies recognize emotions, in adults or other babies. This isn’t news to anyone, except people who haven’t spent any time around babies or scientists looking for grant money.
They do tend to get upset when you drop them. ;)
Can the truth ever be somewhere between, that it may have been an excessive expenditure, but it did manage to quantify a psychological phenomenon that “everyone knows” (i.e. only those who actually care about normal child upbringing, a smaller and smaller set)? Why so cynical? If the cynicism is withheld, this could be viewed as another opening against the advocates of early infanticide.
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