Monday, January 31, 2011

Do babies get angry?


Do your abilities and talents depend on the Nature or Nurture?  Some scientists say that your abstract traits such as intelligence, personality, aggression, and sexual orientation are also encoded in an individual’s DNA and some scientists say that your behavioral aspects originate only from the environment factors of your upbringing. On the American Psychological Association website, one of the issues which the scientists are still debating is that “Do babies get angry?” Some scientists like Linda Camras argue that the use of the term "angry" to describe infants before the age of six months can be misleading, she also said that the infants use the facial expressions of anger in many cases that the adults do not use and so those expressions should be described as “distress”, which partially means that the babies do not develop the emotion anger until or after the age of six months. On the other hand, some of the scientists said that the emotion anger is in the already in the DNA. I agree with what Linda Camras said about not using the word “angry” to describe infants before the age of six months because I think it is mostly depending on the nurture theory of behavior. I think after the babies are born, the emotion – anger develops as he/she grows.

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