So Easy a 6 Month Old Can Do It
by Miki Saxon
When was it lost?
We choose whom to hire/follow/marry/date/befriend—or not.
Some of those choices work out and some don’t, but it’s when we choose someone who’s flawed, who just isn’t nice, that bothers us the most—think Bernie Madoff.
How could we have missed it—it always seems so obvious after the fact—and we end up wondering why our social judgment is so faulty.
A couple of years ago I read an article about research that shows infants do just as good a job discerning the difference between naughty and nice as Santa does.
Babies as young as 6 to 10 months old showed crucial social judging skills before they could talk, according to a study by researchers at Yale University’s Infant Cognition Center published in Thursday’s journal Nature…the Yale team has other preliminary research that shows similar responses even in 3-month-olds.
Ouch.
So what happens between 6 months and the future? Why do we hire/follow /marry/date/befriend the oh-so-obviously wrong people?
Why do we make so many poor choices?
Image credit: greyman on flickr
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