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Some children, it turns out, feel a lotmore guilty about their (supposed)transgression than others. <strong>The</strong>y lookaway, hug themselves, stammer outconfessions, hide their faces. And it’sthe kids we might call the most sensitive,the most high-reactive, the oneswho are likely to be <strong>in</strong>troverts who feelthe guiltiest. Be<strong>in</strong>g unusually sensitiveto all experience, both positive andnegative, they seem to feel both thesorrow <strong>of</strong> the woman whose toy isbroken and the anxiety <strong>of</strong> hav<strong>in</strong>g donesometh<strong>in</strong>g bad. (In case you’re wonder<strong>in</strong>g,the woman <strong>in</strong> the experimentsquickly returned to the room with thetoy “fixed” and reassurances that thechild had done noth<strong>in</strong>g wrong.)In our culture, guilt is a ta<strong>in</strong>ted word,but it’s probably one <strong>of</strong> the build<strong>in</strong>gblocks <strong>of</strong> conscience. <strong>The</strong> anxiety thesehighly sensitive toddlers feel upon406/929

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