The Connected Baby (2011)

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A documentary about how babies are born ready to connect emotionally with others. It presents research showing infants are active social beings from birth, not passive learners.

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What happens

The Connected Baby (stylised as the connected baby) is a 2011 documentary film produced by Dr Suzanne Zeedyk, a developmental psychologist based at the University of Dundee, Scotland. The film-maker was Jonathan Robertson. The film had its premiere on 25 July 2011 at the Dundee Contemporary Arts centre in Scotland. Funded by the British Psychological Society, the film explores research showing that infants are born with active social abilities, already able to communicate and connect emotionally with others. This view of infants contrasts with traditional claims that they are born as passive ‘blank canvases’, who acquire communicative capacities as they develop. A trailer of the film is publicly available. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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