Posted on 08/02/2015 5:42:44 PM PDT by Faith Presses On
Babies as young as 8 months want to see wrongdoers punished, a new study finds.
In contrast, younger babies prefer to see individuals being nice to one another — even when that means that someone is nice to a character who deserves a slap on the wrist.
"This study helps to answer questions that have puzzled evolutionary psychologists for decades," Kiley Hamlin, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia, said in a statement...
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The researchers wanted to know if the babies would prefer the ball-giving puppet or the one that took the ball away. They found that 5-month-olds always preferred the ball-giver, no matter whether the puppet that had dropped the ball had been mean or helpful in the previous scene. At this young age, the babies simply liked puppets to be nice in the moment.
But 8-month-olds were more discerning. They liked it when the third puppet gave the ball back to a previously helpful puppet. But they didn't like it when the third puppet helped out a previously unhelpful puppet. In scenarios involving the mean, toy box-slamming puppet, 8-month-olds favored a third puppet taking its ball away by 13 to three.
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(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
According to researchers at Yale University's Infant Cognition Center, also known as "The Baby Lab," babies can actually tell good from evil, even as young as 3 months old. That research is the focus of a three-part series this week on "Anderson Cooper 360," which airs weeknights at 8 p.m. ET.
To the skeptics who say, "Come on, how can an infant tell the difference between a good guy and a bad guy?" -- I can relate. It certainly runs counter to our notion that children are born as blank slates and learn right from wrong entirely from us.
But the research paints a different picture. Puppets are used to demonstrate good and bad behavior. In one case, a puppet is struggling to open a box. Another puppet, the "good" puppet, helps it open the box, while another, the "bad" puppet, slams the box shut.
More than 80% of the times that experiment is conducted, babies will select the "good" puppet when presented with both puppets and given the chance to choose either one."
"Humans are born with a hard-wired morality, a sense of good and evil is bred in the bone," wrote Paul Bloom, Yale's Brooks and Suzanne Ragen professor of psychology, in an opinion piece for CNN.com.
"Can Babies Tell Right from Wrong? Inside Yale's 'Baby Lab'" http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/13/living/what-babies-know-anderson-cooper-parents/
it’s called natural law DUH
Only Marxists deny its existence.
Million bucks says the babies that choose bad puppets are liberals as adults.
So liberals are emotionally and psychologically younger than an 8 month old baby.
The babies who were aborted from the womb will sit with Jesus Christ on judgment day and judge the ones responsible for their demise.
Duh, does hammer break rock or does rock break hammer.
So we can assume that the mind of the liberal progressive socialists running the show now have a brain of a 7 month old
Surprise, surprise......
Where on Earth did he come up with such a CRAZY idea???
Genesis 3:22
And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil:
Uh...
Nevermind...
We should not be surprised of course. By Design this has been programmed in all of us:
Matthew 19:
14 But Jesus said,“Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of heaven.”
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