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doing all these early observations of infants,

and seeing that it wasn’t just

their social behavior that was different

in the extremes—everything about

these kids was different. Their eyes

dilated more widely when they were

solving problems, their vocal cords became

more tense while uttering words,

their heart rate patterns were unique:

there were all these channels that suggested

there was something different

physiologically about these kids. And I

think, in spite of this, because of his intellectual

heritage, he had the feeling

that environmental factors are so complex

that it would be really hard to pick

up that footprint of temperament later

in life.”

But Schwartz, who believes that he’s

a high-reactive himself and was drawing

partly on his own experience, had a

hunch that he’d find that footprint even

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