FILMING BABIES
PERSONALITY TRAITS
Film pictures of tiny children at play aro being used by Yale Univorsity psychologists who are working on the theory that the first year of a baby's life, if scientifically recorded will foreshadow characteristics that will, develop in adult years (writes an American correspondent to tho "Daily Mail.") The, cinema camera is being used m a novel way for this purpose. At about the ago of two months the babies arc placed in a photographic dome, and given red balls and strings of bells to play with. Eesults indicato that the child is indeed father to the man, according to Dr. Arnold Gesell, who originated the experiments. "They show," he says, "that individual differences in capacity, emotional characteristics, personality traits, and bodily features declare themselves early and are comparable in kind and degree to those observed later in life." From this Dr. Gescll concludes that the belief, hold widely here and abroad, that all human development, depends on environment and.training is erroneous.
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Evening Post, Issue 51, 2 March 1931, Page 13
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166FILMING BABIES Evening Post, Issue 51, 2 March 1931, Page 13
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