Emotions
Toddler Tantrums: What Happens Psychologically
Parents who have tried to reason with a mid-tantrum toddler know, through frustrating experience, that it doesn't work. The developmental neuroscience...
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Emotions
How Sleep Deprivation Affects Infant Emotions
A child who is consistently difficult to manage emotionally — who cries easily, cannot tolerate frustration, becomes distressed by small provocations,...
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Emotions
How Fear Develops in Infancy
Fear is not present at birth as a genuine emotion, even though the startle reflex and general distress responses are. The development of fear — the di...
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Emotions
What Is Happening in a Toddler's Brain During a Tantrum
A toddler mid-tantrum is in a state of genuine neurological crisis. This is not an exaggeration and it is not metaphorical. The emotional centres of t...
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