In a recent study conducted by psychologists from Yale University, babies which are as young as six months have been proven to have the ability to differentiate good and evil. Such study suggested that perhaps a person’s sense of morality may not be based on parenting and environmental factors alone.
Researchers argued that babies may have biological “moral codes” instilled on them. As noted by Professor Paul Bloom, one of the researches, “Some sense of good and evil seems to be bred in the bones.”
The study was based on an experiment where the preference of six-month old babies between ‘good’ puppets and ‘naughty’ puppets were studied. According to Bloom, “Just about all the babies reached for the good guy”. Some babies even smacked the bad puppets.
Infodose thoughts: I think this infodose only shows that not only do babies know what’s good. Instead, this also goes to show that babies prefer to be good. As such, environmental factors and parenting may then be the culprit if babies become naughty.
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