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So the joke goes if I didn't have a pacifier and I didn't have a tit I'm really emotionally screwed up?


Research Suggests That Pacifiers Help Turn Baby Boys Into Emotionless Robocops Later in Life

By Doug Barry, Sep 18, 2012 11:55 PM
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A new study so hot and fresh out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison that Bucky Badger singed his adorable little paws on when he took it out of the lab suggests that pacifiers stunt the emotional development of baby boys by robbing them of the opportunity to mimic adults by refining their Jim Carrey rubber faces. Since a big part of learning emotional cues for infants involves observing and mimicking adults' facial expressions, boys who log a lot of pacifier time could experience a deficit of emotional intelligence as a direct result of having a rubber nipple stuffed into their mouths too often.