Listen, it's easy podcast: what is duckling syndrome and why we sometimes think that everything was better before

In the 1930s, the Austrian zoologist and animal psychologist Konrad Lorenz observed geese. At first he simply noticed, and later studied and described such a phenomenon as imprinting (imprinting). It is a form of study in ethology (the science of animal behavior) and psychology. The chicks perceive any object that they see in the first 12–17 hours after birth as a mother, and follow her, whoever or whatever the “mother” is.

People can behave just like goslings or ducklings. The first successful experience for a person is like a “mother” for chicks, and he just as often follows the learned patterns. This phenomenon, which is called the "duckling syndrome", is analyzed in detail in a new episode.

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