Study refers to six months old babies can distinguish between good and evil is a large

6 months old baby to have any "skills" to a U.S. study showed that six months of age-old baby has been able to distinguish good and evil.

 
This result challenges the morality of the old by the day after tomorrow to develop concepts, some psychologists questioned.

 
Of good and evil
"Baby seems born with the ability to sense good and evil," British "Daily Mail" 9 quoted psychologist Paul Bloom of Yale University professor as saying.

 
In one experiment, Bloom to 6 months to 1 year old baby watch the puppet show. In the show, a "long" the eyes are climbing colorful puppets, a puppet assist, the other is waiting for an opportunity to push down the hill climbing puppet.

 
Read a few times, the researchers "helpful" and "sabotage" of the puppet on the baby front, found that babies like to see the "helpful," the puppet, was like "a good man."

 
"The results showed that 6 months to 10 months old infants prefer 'good', hate the 'bad guys'," Bloom "The New York Times" reporter said.

 
In still unable to toddler and babbling of the young age, babies can escape the formation of basic moral principles, a finding that the infant brain to really like "a white paper" of shocked.

 
Right and wrong
Proof of the other two scenarios with the same old baby six months old with a sense of moral right and wrong.

 
In one scenario, the researchers designed the toy dog to open the box of the "horn morality play." Among them, a teddy bear to help lift the lid toy dog, the other teddy bear stubbornly sat on the lid to open the box to stop toy dog.

 
Another in a similar context, a puppet play cat and two rabbits rolling ball game toy. Similarly, a rabbit playing the "good" role, received the ball after the cat's ball rolled back; the other rabbits to play "bad guy" role, picked up the ball away.

 
Bloom said: "The two experiments showed that most stand-old baby six months of 'good' side."

 
21-month-old baby seems to be more intense sense of right and wrong. When the researchers simulated the same scenario for their post, distribute or allow them to recover for the toy food. Most babies recover choose "naughty rabbit" food, a baby or even playing the "bad guys" of the head as a punishment.

 
Have doubts
"More and more evidence that people already have the beginning of the birth of the basic moral sense," Bloom said, "well-designed experiments show that newborn babies have minds of moral values and moral judgments."

 
However, Bloom's conclusions also subject to challenge. Dr. Nadya Riceland Durham University, said: "Everything depends on the person's frame of reference," she said, "that means helping others to push the ball up the hill, which the researchers to make their own moral judgments, and infants may just like to watch things up instead of down things. "

 
"Another scenario, like a mother protecting a child to leave dangerous objects like teddy bears may be suppressed because the inside cover is a danger," Riceland said, so the baby can not easily determine who is right.