These facts may suggest that the baby’s brain comes with strong templates for trouble, rather than peace and happiness. Although the baby has an instinct to smile, his other possible ideas are pessimistic. Babies come into the world crying, after all. They begin to notice anger and fear long before they have felt these emotions in any real way. If the strongest template is for the possibility of danger and fear, then it would be in a sense the default setting. Unmodified, it would mature into general caution, fear and mistrust. The effect of secure comfort from the infant’s mother may be to
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