Alyssa participated in a study at the Yale Infant Cognition Center this week. The center has discovered that babies at 3 months identify more closely with a good character than a bad character in a puppet show. Alyssa participated in a follow up study. They are currently looking at bad versus neutral and good versus neutral. The question is, were the babies drawn to the good character or repulsed by the bad character? Alyssa watched a puppet show with a tiger puppet bouncing a ball, and two bunnies, bad and neutral. The bad bunny stole the ball from the tiger. The neutral bunny just looked at the tiger, not helping or hurting. After watching the puppet show a few times, they measured how long Alyssa looked at each bunny. She had a great time, and was rewarded with a certificate of participation and a Baby Scientist at Yale University t-shirt!
