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...that they do it right. One of the first skills newborns must learn is how to woo the adults in their world. "For a baby, literally you're going to be dead without love, so getting people around you to love you is a really good strategy," says Alison Gopnik, a cognitive psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley...
...baby smiles, food when their baby's hungry. That's a pleasingly reciprocal deal, and while adults are already aware that when you give pleasure and comfort, you get it in return, it's news for the baby. "Babies are building up ideas about how close relationships work," says Gopnik...
...Children from ages 2 to 5 have yet to develop what's known as a theory of mind--the understanding that other people have hidden thoughts that are different from yours and that you can conceal your thoughts too. Without that knowledge, kids conceal nothing. "They love you," says Gopnik, "and they really, really express...
Some of the essays are also surprisingly relatable to the lives of college-aged students. Gopnik spends quite a few pages explaining the intricacies of the card game “Mafia,” which many student readers have, no doubt, played endlessly. He comments that “both eager cooperation and absolute paranoia are essential to the strategic game”—advice that enterprising and conniving Ivy Leaguers will take to heart...
Through the Children's Gate By Adam Gopnik Knopf...