![]() When shown vignettes of a square helping a ball up a hill and a triangle obstructing the ball’s progress by pushing it downhill, three-month-old babies preferred to watch the square. But the foundations of these qualities, researchers have discovered, are built into the infant mind.īabies, for instance, can tell a helper from a hinderer-and they prefer the helper. The roots of a moral senseĪ moral sense encompasses many qualities babies don’t yet have fully developed, like anger toward cruelty and guilt about transgressions, as well as judgments about fairness, motivation, desire, empathy, and more. ![]() ![]() From the GGSC to your bookshelf: 30 science-backed tools for well-being.Įvolution, he says, has biased infants toward connecting with others in positive ways: We come into the world wired for good. ![]()
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