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Raising Good Humans

Ep 37: The Power of Discord with renowned developmental psychologist Edward Tronick, PhD

Raising Good Humans

Voicing Change Media

Education, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

How the experience of connection and discord and back to connection shape healthy relationships, with renowned developmental psychologist, Edward Tronick, PhD   Visit www.gomacro.com with code: Humans for 30% off your order, plus Free Shipping   Show notes Pre order a copy of Dr. Tronick’s new book, https://www.amazon.com/Power-Discord-Relationships-Building-Resilience/dp/0316488879/ref=nodl_   Produced by Dear Media See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

The following podcast is a dear media production.

0:02.8

Hello and welcome to Raising Good Humans.

0:09.3

I'm Dr. Eliza Pressman and I am interviewing one of the most influential scientists as far as I know of

0:19.2

child development itself.

0:21.4

So I'm so honored to have Edward Tronic, a professor of psychology at the

0:26.2

University of Massachusetts and the director of the Child Development Unit of

0:30.1

Boston. There is a very famous experiment that I'm going to ask you Ed to talk about that

0:40.4

has really helped shape how active and interactive the relationship between a parent and a child is called the still face.

0:51.0

Is that accurate, the still face experiment?

0:54.9

And so I wanted to start all the way back to that

0:58.7

and get to how you showed the world about this connection between babies and their parents.

1:08.6

And then I would love to talk about the beautiful idea of reconnecting

1:13.8

when there's been a disconnect.

1:16.2

How does that sound?

1:17.5

Just those small topics.

1:18.5

That sounds just fine.

1:21.1

If I can start the still face experiment, which I did about, well probably more years ago than I'd like to remember, but about 40, 40 years ago, was an experiment where I was working

1:39.2

with a wonderful pediatrician named Barry Brazleton.

1:46.7

We were looking at face-to-face interactions

1:49.9

between mothers primarily at that time and their babies.

1:55.5

It was something that really hadn't been looked at before

1:58.5

because everyone was concerned about cognitive development.

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