If they looked away the video would stop, the children have lost interest.Īs a side note, I wish Netflix would implement something akin to this for me in my daily life. As long as the children continued to look at the screens the video continued to play. The videos would move from a simple and predictable set of reveals to more complicated and less predictable reveals over the course of the video.

When I say fun items, I’m talking about balls and dummies - things that are fun for children of that age, not guns and porn and stuff that the rest of enjoy. The kiddies, and their parents sat in a darkened room and watched animations of fun items being revealed from behind a set of colourful boxes. The researches measured the attention patterns of 72 infants aged between 7 and 8 months old. Not really understanding the Goldilocks Principle may also be the reason that you’re not sustaining a decent writing output. The sort of thing Psychology students love watching during Monday morning lectures. Rest assured….it was an absolute delight. There was a fascinating study done at the University of Rochester in 2012. In developmental psychology the ‘Goldilocks Principle’ refers to the preference of children to attune their attention toward events that are neither too simple for them to get bored, nor too complicated for them to understand. It also happens to be an important psychological descriptor for the way children (and adults) behave. It involves breaking and entering, burglary, criminal damage and perhaps most excitingly has a supporting cast comprising entirely of bears. Golilocks and the Three Bears is one of the most famous stories in the Western world. “Bitch done gone fucked my bed!” said Baby Bear with the sort of unpredictable character dialogue that excludes me from writing children's fiction. “Who’s been sleeping in my bed?” Asked Mummy bear her fur shaking with rage. “Who’s been sleeping in my bed?” Asked Daddy bear with roar ‘The Three Bears’ CREDIT: MabelAmber on Pixabay

The goldilocks effect