Saturday, February 18, 2017

An Embarrassed Baby

This baby is totally outraged.
One more thing about The Tomkins Institute:  they have videos of babies experiencing different emotions.  The one for shame is of a baby having a bath, and it's amazing:  you can tell that the baby is feeling shame.  The video starts with the baby looking sad, and either the mother or the other woman in the room says he looks depressed.  They laugh about that, and then the baby hunches over and looks down.  He stays this way for the rest of the video.  It is kind of funny, but I wished they would stop laughing, because I think the baby thought they were laughing at him and he kept hunching over more as they went on laughing, so much that at one point one of the women becomes a bit concerned that the little boy is going to put his head in the bathwater.  
The baby is rescued by his father, who doesn't laugh.  He talks to the baby in a very sympathetic tone.
This baby has already started using the withdrawal script to deal with shame events.  I'll talk more about what I've found on script theory in another post as soon as possible. 

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