Motherhood in the age of fear (Opinion)
Motherhood in the age of fear (Opinion)
- July 27, 2018
- Research by social scientists Ashley Thomas (cog sci), Barbara Sarnecka (cog sci) and Kyle Stanford (LPS) in The New York Times, July 27, 2018
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This has actually been confirmed by researchers. Barbara W. Sarnecka, a cognitive
scientist at the University of California, Irvine, and her colleagues presented subjects
with vignettes in which a parent left a child unattended, and participants estimated
how much danger the child was in. … “It’s not about safety,” Dr. Sarnecka told me.
“It’s about enforcing a social norm.”
For the full story, please visit https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/27/opinion/sunday/motherhood-in-the-age-of-fear.html.
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