As soon as they come out of their shells, some chicks start following the first animated object they see, as if it were their biological mother. The Austrian ethologist Konrad Lorenz, at the origin of this discovery in the 1940s, experienced it himself by becoming the mother figure of greylag geese. A few years later […]
The cross : Does loving attachment depend on childhood experiences? Patrick Traube: Yes, even if in humans nothing is ever written definitively. We know, however, that the baby’s first year is a pivotal period in his emotional development. In utero, he already perceives maternal emotions and is imbued with them. If the mother is anxious, […]