A Newborn’s Built-in Feelings

By: Creative Play Muse

Anne of the Thousand Days full There’s a new PsychologyToday.com blog by Dr. Paul Holinger, author of What Babies Say Before They Can Talk The Four Feathers

. The first post focuses on babies and their feelings:

Shoot on Sight buy Current research shows that your baby is born with about 8 to 10 built-in feelings, as shown by the facial expressions. Although there are some interesting controversies in this area, the best information available now suggests humans are born with 9 feelings:

Interest (curiosity)

Enjoyment

Surprise

Distress

Anger

Fear

Shame

Disgust (a reaction to noxious tastes)

Dissmell (a reaction to noxious odors)

Believe it or not, these are your baby’s earliest feelings! Most of them are apparent within the first few days of your baby’s life. Over time, they will combine with experience and with each other to form our more complex emotional life…