Human beings are born with a false sense of instinct. A one year old infant can see through it.
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when you meet happy things, you smile and even applaud. Of course, your actions can be understood by young children, because your emotions and behaviors are perfectly matched. But if you deliberately let your emotions out of line with your behavior, can it be seen by young children?
a recent study published by scholars at the Concordia University in Canada showed that young children just 18 months old could see the behavior of adults as "true feelings" or "deliberate camouflage". For example, if you think you can fool him or her with pain and laughter, you are totally wrong.
to carry out the experiment, the researchers recruited 92 15 to 18 months old children to watch two different performance scenes: one scene was the performer showed a sad expression after getting a toy, and the other was the performer who broke his finger to show a painful expression.
in the face of different scenes, the facial expressions of 15 month old children seem to have no obvious differences. When they see two kinds of "sad" faces, they all show sympathy. This shows that the relationship between emotional experience and facial expression has been established at this age.
on the contrary, 18 month old children have been able to recognize whether facial expression matches behavior. They stared at the faces of the experimenters for a long time, and looked at the babysitter's eyes. They only show sympathy for faces that are sad because of pain. Perhaps they think that only pain causes sadness.
another experiment with 60 early children, 13 to 16 months ago, found that they would only imitate the behavior of an honest person and not imitate the liar's behavior. Children will judge whether they are trustworthy based on their expression (pleasure or disappointment) and scenes (whether there are toys in the box).
researchers also allow honest people to use their heads instead of their hands to touch the light button, and see how many young children mimic their abnormal movements. It was found that only 34% of the children followed the deceivers, while 61% followed the trustee. It can be seen that even infants and young children are afraid of being deceived.