Stranger anxiety

As fear of strangers is usually referred to a pattern of behavior in the development of infants, usually between 4 and 8 months of age, at which a child begins to encounter strange people with strong suspicion, dislike or fear, although previously not a typical behavior of the child was. The fear is triggered more by men than by women and adults more than children or dwarfs. Of course this is from an evolutionary psychological perspective, because infanticide occurs in all primates, up to 40 % of unweaned pups meet and is virtually committed by adults, mostly new immigrants in the group male.

Another type of Fremdelns is the panic reaction of a child when loss of contact with the caregiver. Particularly intense the reaction takes place in an alien environment.

This behavior is the evolving capacity of the child to distinguish strangers from familiar visually and can extend to previously supposedly familiar people. In addition, the emergence of Fremdelns with the evolving capacity of the child coincides, to be able to explore on your own its environment (initially by Crawling, later by running).