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I'll start with this :
How we react to less attractive babies
There's some evidence to suggest that less cute children are treated differently. A review of the scientific literature in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences highlights a few conclusions that point in this direction.
I'll start with this :
How we react to less attractive babies
There's some evidence to suggest that less cute children are treated differently. A review of the scientific literature in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences highlights a few conclusions that point in this direction.
- The first: "Both men and women will expend extra effort to look longer at cute infant faces."
- How we react to less attractive babies
There's some evidence to suggest that less cute children are treated differently. A review of the scientific literature in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences highlights a few conclusions that point in this direction.- The first: "Both men and women will expend extra effort to look longer at cute infant faces."
- So cuter babies command more attention. Does this mean adults prefer them? "When presented with cute and less-cute infants, adults prefer to give a toy to, or even adopt, the cuter one," they write.
- The problem of cuteness discrimination is more acute when the baby has a physical abnormality. Brain scans show that adults — who usually have immediate brain activity when gazing on an infant's face — will show less activity when babies have a "craniofacial abnormality that disrupts the typical cute facial composition."
- In the real world, this plays out with tragic consequences. Babies with cleft lips and palates are more likely to have "adverse outcomes in child development, including cognitive problems," the paper writes. "These problems can at least partly be attributed to early disruptions in mother-child interactions, specifically a lack of all-important maternal responsiveness." The implication is that the mother is less responsive because the child is less cute.
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tbh ngl
