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Which leads to the question - had this been repeated daily - can training make logic overcome the emotion at such a young age? Can the same situation be turned

Which leads to the question - had this been repeated daily - can training make logic overcome the emotion at such a young age? Can the same situation be turned in to a "game"?

ardit33 17y ago
yes, and you may end up with a psychopath child http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy Or somebody with full blown npd (narcissistic): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disord... Pick your poison. That experiment was actually painful to watch.
- sailormoon 17y ago
  I agree, I found it very uncomfortable. And only 2 minutes!
  - tjogin 17y ago
    Yeah, it was horrible. Imagine what it would do to a child to be brought up in an environment that cold and unresponsive. :-(
    - corruption 17y ago
      There are some horrific examples of just this in the dark past of psychotherapy if you care to take a look. Once was enough for me!
- heed 17y ago
  You may end up with one anyway, no?
jey 17y ago
Unlikely. Emotions are hardwired into you, and at least all other mammals. It'd be like hoping to train yourself to not need to eat -- your biology doesn't allow it.
Dove 17y ago
That's a terrible idea. It's not about the baby feeling unsafe, or drawing a bad logical conclusion; it's about the emotional need for love and affection and interaction. If I had a friend who tried this -- who gave me a cold, non-interactive stare for two minutes on a daily basis -- I'd be profoundly disturbed. And I'm an adult. I can comprehend the rationale behind it; a baby can't. I can find other friends; a baby has one or two immutable social contacts. I have deep emotional reserves, and can maintain control through hours or even days of loneliness and boredom; a lonely baby is reduced to uncontrolled tears in minutes. I can take care of myself; a baby's only hope of happiness is his ability to trust his parents' faithfulness. What would it be like? What would it be like if the one person in the world who keeps you emotionally healthy, whose faithfulness keeps you feeling loved and happy instead of profoundly lonely, the only person you really know and trust, the person whose interaction is defining for you what human interaction means . . . what would it be like if they regularly did this? I don't want to know.

Which leads to the question - had this been repeated daily - can training make logic overcome the emotion at such a young age? Can the same situation be turned in to a "game"?

ardit33 17y ago

yes, and you may end up with a psychopath child http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy Or somebody with full blown npd (narcissistic): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disord... Pick your poison. That experiment was actually painful to watch.

sailormoon 17y ago
I agree, I found it very uncomfortable. And only 2 minutes!
- tjogin 17y ago
  Yeah, it was horrible. Imagine what it would do to a child to be brought up in an environment that cold and unresponsive. :-(
  - corruption 17y ago
    There are some horrific examples of just this in the dark past of psychotherapy if you care to take a look. Once was enough for me!
heed 17y ago
You may end up with one anyway, no?

jey 17y ago

Unlikely. Emotions are hardwired into you, and at least all other mammals. It'd be like hoping to train yourself to not need to eat -- your biology doesn't allow it.

Dove 17y ago

That's a terrible idea. It's not about the baby feeling unsafe, or drawing a bad logical conclusion; it's about the emotional need for love and affection and interaction. If I had a friend who tried this -- who gave me a cold, non-interactive stare for two minutes on a daily basis -- I'd be profoundly disturbed. And I'm an adult. I can comprehend the rationale behind it; a baby can't. I can find other friends; a baby has one or two immutable social contacts. I have deep emotional reserves, and can maintain control through hours or even days of loneliness and boredom; a lonely baby is reduced to uncontrolled tears in minutes. I can take care of myself; a baby's only hope of happiness is his ability to trust his parents' faithfulness. What would it be like? What would it be like if the one person in the world who keeps you emotionally healthy, whose faithfulness keeps you feeling loved and happy instead of profoundly lonely, the only person you really know and trust, the person whose interaction is defining for you what human interaction means . . . what would it be like if they regularly did this? I don't want to know.