Scientists: kids perfectly know how to distinguish leaders from evil tyrants
Scientists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign made an unexpected discovery. They concluded that children are at the most tender age (under 2 years) perfectly able to distinguish respect from fear.
They perceive these feelings if they are experienced by others, and can distinguish a leader who is respected by everyone from a tyrant who is simply afraid.
Externally, the behavior of others may be almost identical - they will obey. But babies will not be bothered: they feel perfectly well what this submission dictates - by fear or real respect for the just and reasonable demands of a leader.
The results of their curious research, scientists have published in the specialized scientific publication Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Experts argue that the laws of interaction in society to babies become obvious and understandable even before the lexicon and horizons are expanded. Perhaps this was the basis of primitive society, where stringent demands put survival into question, and these requirements were extended to younger members of the tribe.
A closer look at the results of this study is recommended to look at parents who complain that an unruly and uncontrollable child is growing up in a family. It is possible that the root of the problem must be sought not in the little one, but in the fact that such a family is ruled not by the leader, but by the tyrant.
If both parents are sufficiently amorphous and are neither leaders nor tyrants, then it is possible that the child decides to take the place of the chiefand then one should not expect submission from him either.
But everything can be fixed if you arrange hierarchical priorities in a single family on time.