Still Face Experiment

I saw a video of this experiment which was designed to show how responsive babies are called the Still Face Experiment. I thought what was the most interesting about it was that it shows how what we do is a response to what people around us are doing. In the experiment they have the mother stare blankly at the baby and the baby tries everything she can think of to get a response out of her mother. This is pretty much what we do in a scene, we want something from our scene partner and we do everything we can come up with to get that response. This is also why it is so difficult to get through a scene if you have a scene partner that isn't very responsive. It is really cool to see how natural this impulse is and how we used it regularly even as babies. Check out the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apzXGEbZht0&feature=player_embedded