Can Babies Recognize Right from Wrong?
Recently, I came across a study about how babies are found to having a sense of right and wrong. I was reading through it while picking out a kiddie-ups carousel rocking horse for my future nephew. Although the study seemed a bit controversial, it would be nice to know that a child can distinguish or at least has some sense of it even as they start out in life. The study was conducted by exposing babies to three puppets. One puppet would slide a ball to one puppet, this puppet then forwarded the ball to the third puppet who, instead of sliding it back to the original puppet, would run away with the ball.
The two puppets, aside from the original puppet who held the ball, were then taken down from the stage and placed in front of the toddler. Each of the puppet had a treat set up right beside them and the toddler was asked to take away one treat from a puppet. Most children took away treats from the naughty puppet and even smacked the “bad” puppet in the head for doing what he did. Essentially, this is just one of the many studies conducted in determining the moral judgments of babies.
For most of us, it might seem improbable, but the studies do show some results and if so, we may need to start looking at our children differently.
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