The 7-year-old baby stayed awake all night, and the mother's timidity was the culprit, do you know that emotions can also be contagious?

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2024-05-26 16:12Posted in Hebei

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Wei Ping is a 7-year-old boy who lives with his 4-year-old sister and his mother in a large flat of more than 150 square meters.

Weiping's father, because of the failure of his business in his early years, left hundreds of pairs of shoes in stock for his wife and children, and went to Beijing to start a hydropower business alone.

Because of his down-to-earth life, Weiping's father soon set up a construction team in Beijing, and his business became busier and he went home less often.

On my way from work, I met Wei Ping, who had just finished school.

"Hey, the teacher sued again, saying that he slept in class today."

"Didn't sleep last night?" I joked.

"Isn't it! This child, you let him sleep, but he didn't sleep, and kept saying that he was afraid, and I accompanied him and said that he couldn't sleep. ”

"Weiping, what are you afraid of?"

"I'm afraid of ghosts."

"Little child, just talk nonsense, where is the ghost? Isn't that still me and my sister with you? ”

"Aren't you scared too? And put a pair of scissors under your pillow? ”

"Sister Wang, it seems that you are responsible for this matter!"

"It's me at home, and I'm always afraid of people coming into the house."

"Emotions are contagious, so let's take the child back to catch up on sleep first."

Emotions are contagious? Is it true?

Walker and Gibson had conducted an experiment to study the development of human visual depth.

Placing the baby's abdomen at the age of 2~3 months down on the side of the "visual cliff" found that the baby's heart rate slowed down, indicating that they experienced the depth of the object.

When a six-month-old baby is placed on a glass plate and asked to greet the baby on the other side, it is found that the baby will not hesitate to climb over the side without the illusion of depth, but will not be willing to climb over the side that looks like a cliff, even if the mother barks on the other side.

Studies have shown that babies have depth perception from about six months old. Even two-month-old babies respond differently to stimuli with different depths (such as heart rate changes). This suggests that the infant's depth perception is unlikely to be the product of acquired experience.

In other words, babies around 6 months old already have visual depth and will have a fear of depth.

Some scholars considered the influence of maternal emotions on the results of the experiment, and then studied the reference effect of emotions: Soz et al. selected children about 1 year old when repeating the cliff experiment. As they climb up the cliff, they stop to observe, and on the other side, the mother makes a scared and happy face as requested.

When the mother makes a frightened face, these toddlers refuse to crawl forward; When the mother makes a happy face, most of the toddlers will check the cliff again and climb over it.

Later, psychologists conducted more detailed research on the "emotional referential role", and infants aged 7-10 months began to use expression signals in causal referencing.

Popularly understood: 7-10 months old babies begin to develop and have the ability to judge unfamiliar environments and people by observing their mother's expressions.

Specific to this case: although the mother didn't say anything, the mother's behavior, expressions and other non-verbal information made Weiping feel fear.

In daily life, not only fear, but also emotions such as anxiety, disgust, and excitement are transmitted to children through verbal or non-verbal messages. Therefore, only when parents are emotionally stable can children be emotionally stable.

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