How Responses Are Shaped: The Power of Connections
To better understand connections and the power they hold in our everyday life, we begin with evaluating our emotional response at the earliest stages of our lives—when we are babies. Our brains recognize and tune in to the people whom we depend on. Edward Tronick and his team at Harvard demonstrated this phenomenon through their now-famous Still Face Experiment.1 They found that when humans are disconnected, they go through a sequence of automatic behaviors to gain back the connection. The experiment begins with a baby and the mother in a room interacting and playing. Then, the mother is asked to act as non-responsive—to have a still face. When the baby tries to make a natural connection, ...
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