Pacifiers Disrupt Adult’s Responses to Infant’s Emotions

Year 2018, Volume: 1 Issue: 2, 394 - 406, 30.07.2018

Emine Zehra Kasap

https://doi.org/10.33723/rs.440415

Abstract

Research shows that pacifiers disrupt infants’ mimicry of facial
expressions. This experiment examines whether pacifiers interfere with
caretakers’ ability to mimic infants’ emotions. Adults saw photographs of
infants   with or without a pacifier.
When infants had pacifiers, perceivers showed reduced EMG activity to infants’
smiles. Smiles of infants using a pacifier were also rated as less happy than
smiles depicted without a pacifier. The same pattern was observed for
expressions of distress: adults rated infants presented with pacifiers as less
sad than infants without pacifiers. We discuss deleterious effects of pacifier
use for the perceiver’s resonance with a child’s emotions.

Keywords

Pacifiers, Disrupt, Adult

EMZİKLER YETİŞKİNLER VE BEBEKLER ARASINDAKİ DUYGUSAL İLETİŞİME ZARAR VERİYOR

Abstract

Araştırmalar
emziklerin bebeklerin yüz mimiklerini harekete  
geçirmesini engellediğini göstermektedir. Bu deneysel çalışma emziklerin
bakım verenlerin bebeklerin duygularını taklit etme becerilerini engelleyip
engellemediğini incelemektedir. Yetişkinlere emzikli ve emziksiz bebeklerin
fotoğrafları gösterilmiş ve bebekler emzikli olduğunda katılımcıların
yüzlerinde bebeklerin gülümsemelerine karşılık daha düşük EMG aktivitesi
gözlenmiştir. Aynı zamanda emziksiz bebeklerin gülümsemeleri emzikli bebeklere
kıyasla daha mutlu olarak değerlendirilmiştir. Aynı örüntü, stres ifadeleri
için de gözlenmiş: yetişkinler emziksiz bebekleri emziklilerden daha üzüntülü
olarak değerlendirmiştir. Bu çalışmada, emzik kullanımının algılayan kişi ile
çocuk arasındaki duygusal etkileşime verebileceği olası zararlı etkiler
tartışılmıştır.

Keywords

EMZİKLER, YETİŞKİNLER, BEBEKLER

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