When a parent held a still, blank face for only two minutes,... | Edward Tronick and colleagues

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When a parent held a still, blank face for only two minutes, babies strained to win the face back, then turned away in distress. They were reading us long before they could speak.

Edward Tronick and colleagues, 1978 · the still face experiment in face-to-face interaction

Tronick E, Als H, Adamson L, Wise S, Brazelton TB, The infant's response to entrapment between contradictory messages in face-to-face interaction, Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry 17(1):1-13

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Edward Tronick and colleagues: When a parent held a still, blank face for only two minutes, babies strained to win the face back, then turned away in distress. They were reading us long before they could speak.