Babies 6 Months Know Where the Good and Bad

New York- Every man is believed to already have an inherent moral stance since birth. Proven in infants aged six months was able to distinguish good and bad things before parents teach it. Professor Paul Bloom of Yale University wrote in the New York Times magazine that the baby was already preparing for a moral stance since birth.

This finding is unknown after the researchers asked the babies of all ages to choose characters that are seen as behaving bad or good. It turned out that these babies tend to prefer a good character. In addition, they also do not like naughty or bad character by the way do not want to see it and try to hit him.

Research conducted by a team of psychologists from the Infant Cognition Center at Yale University, Connecticut, this contradicts the belief promoted by the psychology of Sigmund Freud. Mr psychologist stating that newborns do not have a moral stance and require a condition to know right or wrong.

Meanwhile, in another study, researchers involved infants aged 6 months to 1 year and animated movies using the media to show good and bad characters from the stories. The result, approximately 80 percent of babies prefer good character who likes to help with ways to measure how long they view the photos from these figures.

"With the help of well-designed experiments, we can see that the thoughts, feelings and moral considerations have been formed since first year of life," said Prof. Paul Bloom, as quoted from ParentDish, Tuesday (11/05/2010).

Peter Willatts, psychology from Dundee University said the findings suggest a person can not enter into the mind of a baby and asked them to do something, but have to find out that what most attracted his attention. This shows that babies are actually able to determine what is good and bad by itself.

"We now know that in the first six months, babies learn things faster than we imagine. Sometimes what is mind and infants studied hard to understand," he said.