How Babies Think About Danger | Shari Liu | TED

[@Chemson1989]

Mom: My baby is in danger. Baby: I am the danger.

[@dameanvil]

00:11 🍼 The talk explores babies' understanding of dangerous situations. 01:31 🚶‍♂ Babies, surprisingly, are willing to engage in dangerous activities, showing minimal fear in certain situations. 02:45 🧐 Babies can distinguish between safe and dangerous choices made by others, as observed in eye-tracking experiments. 03:40 🌍 The findings generalize across different testing environments, both sterile labs and cluttered home settings. 04:53 🦠 COVID-19 accelerated research, challenging the notion that lab studies were essential, enabling effective online data collection. 06:06 📊 Individual differences exist in babies' responses to danger, prompting exploration of what these variations signify in their development.

[@TVTECS]

The problem I have with this research is it makes the assumption that babies are looking longer as they understand one thing to be more dangerous than the other. When it could be for many different reasons. The graphic could be more interesting, there's more lies & shapes in the dangerous graphics. So there maybe something the baby is discerning as a difference between the 2 situations but to assume that it's danger they are detecting is a bit of a stretch

[@Makes_me_wonder]

Babies learn about danger through feeling pain, getting scolded, and watching others avoid danger.

[@MrChristiangraham]

Fascinating. Thanks for sharing your research, Shari

[@wvsteadman]

Excellent research and I agree that looking at the raw data post hoc to begin understanding how infants differ in their tolerance and understanding of risk is important. As a person with more than 3 decades of standing in front of audiences, please learn not to weave/wobble back and forth while you speak. It distracts from the importance of your findings. I look forward to seeing more of your research.

[@kaiyote7924]

So are we concluding babies are prone to danger or what if they are watching because it is dangerous much in the same way someone cant look away from a trainwreck. Do they want to do that act or is the danger knowingly eye catching because the perceived a dangerous act. I wouldnt bat an eye at someone obeying traffic laws but if i saw someone driving the wrong way down a freeway id be rubbernecking

[@NamesChuck]

No

[@Necie06]

This is great info for me and anyone else who gonna be a parent soon

[@possomt6211]

I think the first experiment the babies were just looking at the bold contrasting shapes on the screen - the big drop just had a bigger green chunk

[@dustywayfarer]

What about the babies that don't have a sense of self vs environment yet? Perhaps babies learn to recognize others before they learn to recognize themselves.

[@mateusnanet]

If there was no COVID, the number of babies and births would probably be different.

[@TooMuchMills]

4 minutes in n she’s BLOWN MY MIND

[@julianshepherd2038]

My daughter was careful, my son was not.

[@nonononononono000]

Babies have unique personalities regardless of gender plus studies show people project gender norms on to babies like crazy so 🤷

[@PedroGonzalez-vg5jt]

How do birds learn how to make a nest? Who teaches them? Their are bot with their birth mother when they have to.

[@AdwaitBorkar]

Huh

[@andersemanuel]

Cool real science. And she didn’t even have a funny haircut, clan or tribal symbols or DEI clothes. Amazing.

[@Mr.Marbles]

just ask them lol.

[@Harry_Ballzonya]

They wont discuss what a baby goes through during an abortion after the nervous system is developed

[@Techmaster502]

❤❤❤ nice

[@Techmaster502]

Nice ❤❤❤

[@jollygreen4662]

This is what happens to a mid aged person who study coding and graphics more than spending time with people.

[@CynthiaNaijacynth]

😂😂😂😂

[@remyllebeau77]

Now see what feelings they have about being torn apart in the womb.

[@mir3502]

none

[@mkrk_G]

No feelings :D

[@jejjsdafjwdfsg]

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[@artattackchannel5751]

Danger?? Just don't bring them into the world

[@Sfhakrn]

Ummmm, who gaf? Lol