TL;DR: Parents, including fathers, who spend more time with their babies come to recognize their cries better.
Not sure if that's really as counter-intuitive as the article suggests.
Not sure if that's really as counter-intuitive as the article suggests.
That was her intuition as a mother. Again when you hear the discussions about which side a child should go during a divorce, 'children goes with the mother' is a baseline, and you have to bring up severe flaws in the personality or sociability of the mother to have the father considered as a viable alternative (at least that's how it went with my relatives)
Studies focusing on the parents skills and involvment in the child's life often bring seemingly obvious but still counter to the general population's concensus results.
At least it is a comprehensible argument against the myth that women are intrinsically or genetically better at it than men.
I'm saying the new finding that "more time -> better able to recognize" is also not surprising.
It seems like this data explains that stereotype. Mothers are often "better" at it because they often spend the time with their kids to develop that skill.