Babies Recognize Each Other's Moods, Study Says
Baby Talk A new study revealed that by five months of age, babies are capable of perceiving and associating changes in emotions of their peers. Brigham Young Univeristy Babies know when other babies are behaving badly. Now if only they could scold each other... When I used to babysit my infant niece, I often panicked when she started to cry. Was she hungry? Tired? Cold? In need of a diaper change? I struggled to interpret her scrunched-up, tear-stained face. But it turns out other babies might've easily been able to read her temper changes. A recent study led by Ross Flom, psychology professor at Brigham Young University, revealed that by 5 months of age infants can recognize each other's emotional expressions. "Newborns can't verbalize to their mom or dad that they are hungry or tired, so the first way they communicate is through affect or emotion," Flom says in a statement....