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How Babies Think About Danger | Shari Liu | TED

Are babies oblivious to danger? It’s not that simple, says cognitive scientist Shari Liu. Sharing surprising insights (and plenty of baby videos) from studies of early human development, Liu highlights the unexpected ways babies perceive and respond to risky situations — and what these findings could unravel about the inner workings of our minds. If…

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Are babies oblivious to danger? It’s not that simple, says cognitive scientist Shari Liu. Sharing surprising insights (and plenty of baby videos) from studies of early human development, Liu highlights the unexpected ways babies perceive and respond to risky situations — and what these findings could unravel about the inner workings of our minds.

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35 Comments

  1. @jejjsdafjwdfsg

    February 5, 2024 at 1:46 pm

    First comment

  2. @Techmaster502

    February 5, 2024 at 1:46 pm

    ❤❤❤ nice

  3. @Techmaster502

    February 5, 2024 at 1:46 pm

    Nice ❤❤❤

  4. @Necie06

    February 5, 2024 at 1:49 pm

    This is great info for me and anyone else who gonna be a parent soon

  5. @AdwaitBorkar

    February 5, 2024 at 1:51 pm

    Huh

  6. @SimonHuggins

    February 5, 2024 at 1:53 pm

    Using AI to read baby’s minds. What could go wrong? Robot nurseries within ten years I reckon.

    • @jarretwilkinson8727

      February 5, 2024 at 1:54 pm

      Fear can be good and bad

  7. @julianshepherd2038

    February 5, 2024 at 2:06 pm

    My daughter was careful, my son was not.

    • @user-87jnfdcssbmjj

      February 5, 2024 at 4:04 pm

      Babies have unique personalities regardless of gender plus studies show people project gender norms on to babies like crazy so 🤷

  8. @captain_context9991

    February 5, 2024 at 2:16 pm

    This is a whole lot of nothing… Which is what TED is reduced to now.

    • @BSPoK

      February 6, 2024 at 5:46 pm

      It is said that the universe came from nothing so this “nothing” also has its own value ☺️..

    • @adamt1543

      February 7, 2024 at 11:35 am

      Then don’t watch TED talks…..

    • @captain_context9991

      February 7, 2024 at 12:35 pm

      @@adamt1543
      Wow… Its like the solution to everything in American politics… If you dont like it, get out. Because we are incompetent and cant do anything right.

    • @d_oddy

      February 7, 2024 at 6:37 pm

      a whole lot of nothing 😂

    • @sagnorm1863

      February 7, 2024 at 8:28 pm

      This has to be the dumbest study I have ever seen. a red ball jumping over a cliff in a weird chessboard landscape? There are old people that would have no clue WTF they were looking at. But these babies are supposed to personify a red ball, realize its in danger, and watch it jump over a cliff in chessboard land?

      And babies are smart enough to understand all of that but walk off the cliff themselves? Because why?

      Nothing made any sense in this.

  9. @Chemson1989

    February 5, 2024 at 2:31 pm

    Mom: My baby is in danger.
    Baby: I am the danger.

  10. @keyahsblair

    February 5, 2024 at 2:32 pm

    Soooooo OUR ELDERS OBSERVATIONS FROM RAISING US IS NULL CUZ PEEPO THAT HAVEN’T BEEN AROUND BABIES AND HAVE SOCIAL ANXIETIES KNOW BETTER LMAO

  11. @dameanvil

    February 5, 2024 at 2:40 pm

    00:11 🍼 The talk explores babies’ understanding of dangerous situations.
    01:31 🚶‍♂ Babies, surprisingly, are willing to engage in dangerous activities, showing minimal fear in certain situations.
    02:45 🧐 Babies can distinguish between safe and dangerous choices made by others, as observed in eye-tracking experiments.
    03:40 🌍 The findings generalize across different testing environments, both sterile labs and cluttered home settings.
    04:53 🦠 COVID-19 accelerated research, challenging the notion that lab studies were essential, enabling effective online data collection.
    06:06 📊 Individual differences exist in babies’ responses to danger, prompting exploration of what these variations signify in their development.

  12. @TooMuchMills

    February 5, 2024 at 2:40 pm

    4 minutes in n she’s BLOWN MY MIND

  13. @MrChristiangraham

    February 5, 2024 at 2:58 pm

    Fascinating. Thanks for sharing your research, Shari

  14. @tierrasworld

    February 5, 2024 at 3:02 pm

    What about the people on the street y’all love to avoid. Them once was kids who did not fit into the system. Adults with mental issues. Addicts y’all made. What y’all are coming out with makes no senses because y’all not really focused on what’s really going on at hand. I hope EVERYBODY makes it but a lot of people are selfish. Y’all can’t even notice that they are poisoning all of us through the water and food
    Making us consumers only while they work their hidden agenda

  15. @remyllebeau77

    February 5, 2024 at 3:03 pm

    Now see what feelings they have about being torn apart in the womb.

    • @mir3502

      February 8, 2024 at 12:54 am

      none

  16. @mateusnanet

    February 5, 2024 at 3:09 pm

    If there was no COVID, the number of babies and births would probably be different.

  17. @Sfhakrn

    February 5, 2024 at 3:12 pm

    Ummmm, who gaf? Lol

  18. @Mr.Marbles

    February 5, 2024 at 3:15 pm

    just ask them lol.

  19. @kaiyote7924

    February 5, 2024 at 5:16 pm

    So are we concluding babies are prone to danger or what if they are watching because it is dangerous much in the same way someone cant look away from a trainwreck. Do they want to do that act or is the danger knowingly eye catching because the perceived a dangerous act. I wouldnt bat an eye at someone obeying traffic laws but if i saw someone driving the wrong way down a freeway id be rubbernecking

    • @NamesChuck

      February 6, 2024 at 10:03 am

      No

  20. @PedroGonzalez-vg5jt

    February 5, 2024 at 8:20 pm

    How do birds learn how to make a nest? Who teaches them? Their are bot with their birth mother when they have to.

  21. @jollygreen4662

    February 5, 2024 at 10:11 pm

    This is what happens to a mid aged person who study coding and graphics more than spending time with people.

    • @CynthiaAnaele

      February 6, 2024 at 3:01 am

      😂😂😂😂

  22. @artattackchannel5751

    February 6, 2024 at 1:06 am

    Danger??

    Just don’t bring them into the world

  23. @Smokabowlski

    February 7, 2024 at 8:25 pm

    The votes were real!!!
    Remember to get out the vote!!!
    BIDEN 2025!!!!

  24. @wvsteadman

    February 8, 2024 at 11:24 am

    Excellent research and I agree that looking at the raw data post hoc to begin understanding how infants differ in their tolerance and understanding of risk is important. As a person with more than 3 decades of standing in front of audiences, please learn not to weave/wobble back and forth while you speak. It distracts from the importance of your findings. I look forward to seeing more of your research.

  25. @possomt6211

    February 10, 2024 at 3:00 am

    I think the first experiment the babies were just looking at the bold contrasting shapes on the screen – the big drop just had a bigger green chunk

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