The Connected Baby

The Connected Baby stylized 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 filmmaker was Jonathan Robertson. The film had its premiere onJuly 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.

Each of these chapters analyses a specific interaction between the baby and another person, during which the babys communicative abilities are illuminated. A trailer of the film is publicly available.In 2011, the film featured as one of the Renfrewshirebased events in the Scottish Mental Health Arts amp Film Festival and also received showings in New York and Albuquerque, USA. In 2012, showings were held at events based within the Scottish Parliament and the Northern Irish Assembly at Stormont. The film also toured venues in Northumberland, England in July 2012, as organized by the local governmental authority. All of these events grew out of a desire by associated organisations to highlight the scientific links that have been established between early life experiences and later life outcomes, in domains such as health, education, imprisonment, and sustaining relationships. The film has since been cited in academic publications. ........

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