Each day, Connellan would turn up to the maternity ward to see if any mothers had given birth. The experiment itself was simple. “We wanted to contrast social versus mechanical,” she says. So every baby was shown a face, which happened to be Connellan’s own, and a mechanical mobile made from a picture of Connellan’s face. They then measured how long every child looked at each one, if they looked at all.
Are you kidding me?
