babies 'can tell right from wrong'
Researchers asked infants of various ages to choose between characters which they had seen behaving well or badly, and found they overwhelmingly favoured the "good" characters.
One-year-old babies who were asked to take treats away from a "naughty" puppet in some cases went so far as to lean over and smack it on the head.
The research, which is being pioneered by a team of psychologists from the Infant Cognition Centre at Yale University, Connecticut, contradicts the belief promoted by psychologists such as Sigmund Freud that babies are born "amoral animals" and acquire a sense of right and wrong through conditioning.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7699927/Six-month-old-ba...
Yes deepb, they are just wasting time and money which could have been used for many other useful research. Seriously, who are funding these nonsense research topics?
Researchers have run out of useful topics to research on. And their techniques of researching and conclusion arrived at is a joke. Reminds me of this joke :-
There once was a scientist who studied frogs. One day, the scientist put the frog on the ground and told it to jump. The frog jumped four feet.
So the scientist wrote in his notebook, "Frog with four feet, jumps four feet."
So the scientist cut off one of one of the frogs legs. The scientist told the frog to jump. Frog jumped three feet. So the scientist wrote in his note book, "Frog with three feet, jumps three feet."
So the scientist cut of another leg. He told the frog to jump. The frog jumped two feet. So the scientist wrote in his notebook "Frog with two feet, jumps two feet."
The scientist cut off one more leg. He told the frog to jump. Frog jumped one foot. So the scientist wrote in his notebook, "Frog with one foot, jumps one foot."
So the scientist cut off his last leg.
"He said, "Frog jump. Frog jump. FROG JUMP!"
So the scientist wrote in his notebook, "Frog with no feet, goes deaf."
LOL sherqa...
Why are these people wasting so much money in topics like this? I mean what is the use of research like this? Are we going to appoint 1 year old babies in the court of law as judge? This is just a waste of time and money. I personally think children must have reacted to visual affect of the puppets rather than what they did....like naughty puppet looking bad while good ones looking pretty. How can one conclude that their reaction was based on their sense of right and wrong?