I'm weirded out by the fact that the occasional spanking is wrong, but physically restraining them somehow is much better. (And I can't be the only person thinking of psychiatric ward, dramatised images of disabled children in the former USSR. Ugh.)
I'm having trouble finding academic things to back you up, but at least it seems that the finger nuances of telling between happiness, surprise, and pride at above-chance levels at 4 years of age.
I do wonder if surprise, anger and fear (ie, the cues claimed that would be enough to let your child know something is wrong) cluster together similarly and are difficult to tell apart too. And that's without realising a fundamental difference between adults and small children -- you are usually looking at peoples' legs, not faces, unless you're specifically looking upwards.
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Date: 2008-10-01 03:12 am (UTC)I'm having trouble finding academic things to back you up, but at least it seems that the finger nuances of telling between happiness, surprise, and pride at above-chance levels at 4 years of age.
I do wonder if surprise, anger and fear (ie, the cues claimed that would be enough to let your child know something is wrong) cluster together similarly and are difficult to tell apart too. And that's without realising a fundamental difference between adults and small children -- you are usually looking at peoples' legs, not faces, unless you're specifically looking upwards.