Toddlers regulate their behavior to avoid making adults angry

there's something inside to see what's inside the Box and take the lid off is there something in there there's a green cone I'm gonna put it back inside of the box and put the lid back on the box and close it up can I see that thing look at this let's see look at this there foreign look at this that's aggravating that's so annoying oh well that's just your opinion it's aggravating can I see that thank you I'm gonna go now Theresa Kelly's going bye bye foreign

Channel: UW I-LABS

Views: 13,504,556

Keywords: Early Childhood Education (Field Of Study), Parents, Family, Child Development (Literature Subject), Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, University Of Washington (College/University)

Id: 7FC4qRD1vn8

Length: 2min 14sec (134 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 07 2014

Reddit Comments

[u/[deleted]]

" I wanna put those round things in the cup but dat bitch gonna yell at me...."

That face was priceless.

[u/AdverbAssassin]

My kids never did this. They actually regulated their behavior to make me angry.

[u/hudsonab]

Dude Kelly is a bitch.

[u/therealtimmy]

Study confirms adults are assholes.

[u/Misterj4y]

Man, maybe I'm just being a dumb dad, but this video made me incredibly sad for some reason. The kid was genuinely afraid to play with the toy so as to not anger the adult. Really goes to show how you act around your kids affects them way more than you think.

[u/Xx_MR_X_xX]

Disclaimer: I am not a scientist.

I feel like this experiment had too many variables to come to the conclusion that they came to did. Why did they not let the toddler play with the cup and beads before the lady with the magazine entered or after she left?

Edit: grammar

Edit2: /u/Sharwdry had shown me that I had overlooked one important fact. This video is a reinactment of the experiment that was published. Kind of like a behavioral experiment TL;DR for the community. That is why it is so brief.

[u/Stormhammer]

So, this is why I love kids - you can literally see it on their face the learning, and the gears turning - or when the woman used that tone of voice it looked back at the other girl with a " oh you done fucked up now"

[u/unbalancedforce]

Watching experiments on kids is really freaking weird.

[u/[deleted]]

No shit they do. Otherwise they would be strangled at a much higher rate.