Babies can tell good people from bad ones.

[Abyan]

Babies can tell good people from bad ones

 

From the age of six months, babies can judge people's characters, distinguishing between 'good' and 'bad' people, new research suggests.

 

 

Scientists at Yale University have found that babies have the ability to make moral and social judgements by working out whether someone has a helpful or unhelpful character. The results suggest that this ability is instinctive and not learned from parents.

 

A series of experiments revealed that babies aged between six and ten months old preferred 'helping' characters to anti-social ones.

 

The research involved testing the reaction of babies to "good", "neutral" and "bad" wooden toys.

 

In almost all cases the infants preferred toys that were helpful to others over those which either hindered their progress or "stood back" and did nothing.

 

Kiley Hamlin, lead author of the study, commented: "Our results suggest that infants have a pretty advanced evaluating system that doesn't need much outside input to develop. It develops at a very early age, by 6 months."

 

Prior studies showed that young infants prefer more attractive people, however this is the first report to suggest that babies as young as six-months-old already have developed mechanisms to judge social intentions.

 

The authors said: "This supports the view that our ability to evaluate people is a biological adaptation - universal and unlearned."

 

http://www.practicalparenting.co.uk/news/Babies_can_tell_good_people_from_bad_ones_article_163191.html

 

 

I know someone that is not good with babies, they cry the moment he picks them up, it never occured to me that he was evil..looool

[Cara.]

I find it hard to believe that they could tell what babies are thinking or feeling about someone. You see people looking at their kid, and going "He smiled! Or maybe it's just gas..."

[umu zakaria]

Babies can tell who is evil and who is kind to them. They are good at that even more than grownups.

[Jacaylbaro]

That is why babies like me ,,,,,,, iska daa imikuun baaban fahmaye