#ThrowBackThursday: let’s throw it back to a classic experiment in developmental psychology! The visual cliff experiment was conducted in 1995 by Campos and colleagues to explore how infants 👶 interpret others’ emotional expressions. In this experiment, infants were placed on a special table that was designed to give the illusion of a visual cliff. The infants’ mother was on the other side of the “cliff”, expressing either a happy face 😁 or a fearful face 😨. Do you think any of the infants crossed the cliff?
Swipe through this post to see how the infants interpreted their mothers’ nonverbal cues! Thank you to research assistant Jacqueline Satok for creating this informative TBT post!
