Are babies born knowing right from wrong?

Yale University's "Baby Lab" shows that babies might know the difference between good and bad behavior at early ages.

[@joe8889]

I want to see a study of those babies that chose the bad guy, how they turned out later in life

[@MsJanetWood]

They're probably running their own Fortune 500 company! 😂🤣😅

[@donaldlyons17]

@@MsJanetWood Oh man I think you may be onto something!!!

[@jeffery275]

Damn we need babies to run for president they surely will fix politics

[@nichoalsnastari9738]

Abortion

[@36arista]

As I was holding my 6 month baby, I opened the front door to a restaurant and started to walk through the door. A lady pushed her way through, cutting us off. My baby hit her on the arm and gave her a really dirty look as she passed by us. The stunned lady spun around and said, "Oh my gawd!" I just had to shrug my shoulders at her and laugh. Babies do have a basic sense of right and wrong.

[@omennemo8844]

I do Believe we are born innately good. I can remember as far back as when I was in a crib. I remember knowing bad immediately. I learned survival at a very young age as I was around violent people. I remember when I began figuring out what I need to do to take care of my sisters and myself. I graduated at the age of 15 or 16 yrs of age. I knew the reason why I was able to graduate so early. The school didn't challenge my intelligence. It was a school for children that were from broken families. I remember watching adults and figuring out what I could do to make it better for me and the whole time my heart was gentle yet I was angry inside. I learned to hold my anger because I seen what harm it could do. Children watch everything around them. It forms their behavior. Their personality can be a good one but will do things to survive that may be against what they really want to do. I love watching children. They are amazing. The worst thing that is happening to our children now, is the current justice system in the schools and on the streets. It's not bad enough that some of these kids are being raised by parents who do not know how to parent, the police are out there treating them like criminals making the problem worse. I wonder if this is being done purposely. Do they want to ensure that their future income? All the homelessness and crimes that he have in this country is a product of our governing system. This country feeds off of the middle class and the poor. I actually think there is some kind of master plan to control the masses to keep the rich and their future generations living off of people trying to get their little slice of the pie. I see people working harder and harder to maintain their household yet they seem to be losing their homes and ending up in the streets. These are the middle class people becoming homeless. We never saw that here when we were younger. It was only in Africa that I saw adds. Not only has it not gotten any better for them but it seems to be spreading all over the world. Homelessness and hunger. Can you see the big picture. I have seen the devil face to face and he is very tricky. He looks like a good person.. Has a nice family. Once you try to challenge him, he will make your life miserable. His does not come from a certain race, creed or color. He does not have to be male or female He is greed with a smile on his face. They are people you will least expect. I am glad my time on this earth is almost at an end. I don't want to be here to watch "Final Solution".

[@boxertest]

We are born knowing good and evil...but choices in life decide what we become, good or evil.

[@ryanshapleighrobison6811]

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[@wuuspigs]

Fascinating.

[@flameshana9]

02:13 "How do we know what they're really thinking." That's just it, they're not. This is a test of their instincts _before_ they have ideas put into their head. So what they're really thinking (as in their honest feelings) are that good is good and bad is bad. It just sucks that they can change their mind so easily later. They know it's wrong to take from others who are weaker or less fortunate but so many people grow up to be bullies and mistreat even their own families. You should NEVER want to be mean to your own family and yet there's so much abuse.

[@AmazingStoryDewd]

Ever heard of innatism? It speculates whether or not all ideas were out in our minds. The argument is that we all have innate knowledge.

[@flameshana9]

@@AmazingStoryDewd How would you explain how an infant who is literally seconds old choses to look at a more symmetrical face over another one? So it's pretty obvious we're pre-built with ideas like what is healthy and therefore preferable. Before we learn or are taught anything we don't know that A leads to B. We just have honest likes and dislikes. We don't know junk food will make us sick or get us punished. We just know it tastes good. So there's no real mystery.

[@angelac9181]

Thats nurture not nature

[@southernbelladonna78]

@@flameshana9 you contradicted yourself there saying we look at symmetrical face because we instinctively know it's healthy. Then we gravitate to junk food for tastes but it's not healthy. Also symmetrical face is simply easier on the eyes not a sign of a healthy body. It's easier for babies to look at a symmetrical face because the eyes don't get confused when both sides are the same. If a part of the face is not symmetrical the baby's eyes will instantly focus on the part of the face that is out of line and try to figure out what it is, what it's doing, why it looks different.

[@flameshana9]

@@southernbelladonna78 Symmetry is absolutely a sign of good genetics. They've done the studies. And it's obviously not just babies that like symmetry. The point was that it is not _learned_ that it's better, our brain looks for it immediately as soon as we open our eyes. Junk food tricks our brains, hence why I said we change as we grow up. We fall into traps for the very reason that we aren't thinking creatures. We're animals that act on instinct. IE: if you instinctually like sweet things you will always want them and have to consciously resist that temptation. Knowing it's bad for you doesn't turn off the desire to eat it. That desire is built in, permanently.

[@MsJanetWood]

1:48 *THIS EXPERIMENT IS FLAWED! YOU CAN'T MAKE ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT WHAT SOMEONE IS THINKING!* Maybe, Baby Megan was thinking, "💚GREEN! 🍀THAT'S MY 🍏FAVORITE 🥝COLOR!" "I 📙DON'T🍊 LIKE 🥕ORANGE!🔶"

[@MsJanetWood]

5:25 *Still, there are other factors, even if you switch the shirts!*

[@martinwest2538]

In fact you can, to a degree. If the experiment is repeated over and over, giving similar results, there is clearly a strong validity in the outcome. And btw, babies and small children are already people, too. In fact they know and can think much more than we grownups have the ability to understand them. This is especially true and noticeable when you spend some time with them, interacting and observing from the beginning.

[@MsJanetWood]

@@martinwest2538 You are confused! Babies can't reason! 🤣😂😅

[@martinwest2538]

@@MsJanetWood I'm not going to argue about that. But they observe, react and learn. We adults think it's all about values, reasoning, finding deeper meaning and shit, but in the beginning it's just spontane reacting to happenings. Babies see, feel - and, in their own way, "reason" (or "relate", if you will) to what they experience, in accordance to their capacity - which by the way is increasing every time they experience something new. The more they experience, the sooner they learn. There are great differences between babies already in a couple of months (and increasingly so), according to if they've grown up in a milieu of intercourse, interaction and activity or not. By the age of say 10 to12 months the difference can be staggering. It's not easy to say, when a human being starts "reasoning" in the deeper sense of the word, but I think the process starts early on, in fact straight from the beginning - if the conditions are favorable.

[@MsColdCanada]

From the comments I think we can spot the one in ten who couldn't tell a "good" bunny from a "bad" bunny. It's strange to the majority that some are wired with innate manipulative self-interest rather than empathy. I wonder how much better the world could be if we could understand what's causing the 10% deviance from the norm.

[@kathleentewksbury3634]

So if people show kindness early in a child’s life they will choose this behavior over the mean.

[@t5e2]

do these 3 month old babies even know what a bunny is? do they even know what opening and closing boxes are about?

[@AndrewDeFaria]

It's not the difference between right and wrong, it's merely empathy.

[@joedavid2510]

Megan was adorable but how did she know that the tiger didn't want to just keep the box closed? Maybe the tigers job was to open and unload the box and was intentionally not opening it.

[@Knightice765]

Cute babies :D

[@giantwilburson9462]

they held the green bunny closer than the orange one.

[@victorntwari2332]

They're innocent.

[@kleeamd8274]

0:42 Anderson 'Up-The-Pooper' Cooper loves when his hole has a peg in it

[@ADAJ3KINGANGEL]

+ positive

[@dracohirudo9207]

Maybe that's Orange bunnies box and he doesn't want you in it!! X3

[@cuellar4500]

wow

[@martinwest2538]

I believe we are born more or less neutral (vs. "good" or "bad"), but we have a common drive to thrive and survive (or to "feel good" in a way), and a capacity to immediately recognize behavior that contradicts this "good feeling" of being. You may ask why then narcissists don't have empathy - well, I think there's something severe in the experiences when they are very young children, which de facto kills this "good feeling" and replaces it with bitterness in time. Children in a healthy and positive environment grow up preserving and internalizing the "good feeling", thus becoming empathetic and loving characters.

[@martinwest2538]

We are not being born bad either. Being evil or bad is something we learn to be via recurrently experiencing hurtful things and/or neglect. This is especially true and critical in an early stage, when our self is forming. Later, when it's already formed, we have acquired more resilience towards bad things and are thus not so easily affected anymore.

[@martinwest2538]

*MAY have acquired more resilience... that is, if we are treated in a good and healthy manner as kids, so that our self-confidence and self-respect is developed in a properly fashion.

[@YoungNationWorld]

These severe childhood experiences do not account for all narcs. I’ve seen children with perfectly normal home lives that lack empathy. Maybe some children define severe childhood differences differently. Like: “I didn’t get extra teddy grams and now I’m void of empathy.”

[@martinwest2538]

@@YoungNationWorld Yes, I have overstated a bit by using the word "severe". The "severeness" depends on the experience of the kid (i.e. HOW the kid experiences what's going on), and this may be very subtle and may go unnoticed by bystanders. So a seemingly "normal" home milieu might in the long run be psychologically poisonous for just some (often one) of the kids and the family dynamics may further an unempathetic development for this kid, even if the rest of the family seems to be thriving.

[@YoungNationWorld]

@@martinwest2538 I hear you but my experiences haven’t changed. Why one kid out of many see everything different and just so turn out them seeing it differently don’t cause them to hurt themselves but hurt everybody else with a laugh attached. Dennis the menace is not a fairytale from where I grew up it was a real high percentage of kids (terrible 2s never ended they just stayed terrible) and they were like that for fun and social validation of one another

[@victornavarro4285]

👍

[@limalima6037]

Yes. But some are more "sensitive" to it than others. That show is inconclusive and stupid. There could be something bad inside the box. Which would mean the little tiger is a fool. As are those kids and instructors/puppeteers not to mention the parents.

[@SanjayKumar-sr5qi]

Um maybe the babies grab the bunnie which is closer to their dominant hand.

[@sharifmahmud9583]

What would have happened in case such trial in 06 months old Baby Trump!!??🤔😌

[@MsJanetWood]

*Baby Trump would have such a short attention span, that he probably could not sit still long enough to watch the puppet show! He would start crying and fussing and demand his bottle!* 🍼

[@TeddieSage1987]

... I won't even bother watching this video. Hatred is taught, not bred. Edit: Oh my, I just noticed my horrible spelling... It was supposed to be "thought". Forgive my French.

[@thomasparisithinkhub]

I hear you. We are born empathetic and compassionate and loving... what happens after that is deception after deception....so sad.

[@TeddieSage1987]

thomas parisi Oh my, I just noticed my horrible spelling... It was supposed to be "thought". Forgive my French.

[@neneyounge]

Teddie Sage You were actually correct the first time. THOUGHT is the past tense of THINK while TAUGHT is the past tense of TEACH.

[@flameshana9]

And yet they dislike the characters/puppets who harm, steal from or bully others. Their disapproval is built in. Kids don't naturally "hate" someone of a different race, but they still pick on each other for things nobody told them to. How many kids say "You have freckles/long hair/brown eyes/are short/wear funny clothes!"? What parent told them to look for those things and definitely make sure to attack it? Humans aren't all evil, but they sure weren't told to behave like this. If they become racist then yes, that's their parents/society's fault. But many, many things are their own weaknesses they started with.

[@shayaandanish5831]

You should switch the color too. Orange and green may have a reason to be preferred. The variables in the experiment arent controlled

[@angelac9181]

😮

[@marscmarsc5382]

Barf. Surprising?!??! not really.* drumroll* one-sided casian mind BRAINWASHED. I've not found the audio, no doubt banned. The human is no different than... its rewarded for good things, & bad punished accept that we are punished hundreds of times when older because of our sharp acute minds. LOok it up THE AUDIO IS OUT THERE I JUST CAN'T REMEMBER THE TITLE

[@jzeman]

Taylor Lorenz can't

[@southernbelladonna78]

I didn't know right from wrong until I was like 12, lol. And then it was still kind of fuzzy.

[@ambercash975]

really okay

[@southernbelladonna78]

@@ambercash975 yep. A lot of kids are like that. It's normal. By 12 is when most kids have started developing a conscious. I don't mean I did mean or awful things but I did shoplift with my friends and even mean to other kids sometimes but started feeling bad about it right around 12 years old. Now I'm probably nicer than you, lol.

[@rodman1303]

That's why jesus told us all to be humble like children... we are all taught hate and beliefs subconsciously thru the music and media we take in

[@ethankillion8419]

I wonder if u continue to do this to babies would they grow up yo be more justful and fair

[@flameshana9]

Of course you can affect a person. How many people with strict parents turn out bad? How many with lazy parents turn out good? This isn't something new. People have existed for a very long time.

[@xzavienflores9463]

First comment bo ya

[@rekas69]

I don't think so, it's what happens during their lifetime and how parents raised them.

[@thomasparisithinkhub]

A combination of nature and nurture shapes our worldview. Our emotional drive though, starts out pure. This is what is meant when people talk about the innocence of a child. Many studies have been done by reputable scientists. We are born with an emotional intelligence that drives us toward "rightful" action. It becomes skewed as we grow and learn and must assimilate contradictory information about the world in how we feel about it. We reconcile these differences and we get lost and confused. We are all family, and we start out understanding this, but we learn divisive ways of thinking and become locked in an "identity".

[@freightagent7122]

+thomas parisi Its like a blank cd . we start out neutral .

[@flameshana9]

@@thomasparisithinkhub If we're born good then why are the laziest people with the laziest parents always the worst? Why does it take work to train children not to fight and be selfish? Just because kids are helpful does not mean they aren't easily spoiled and won't become selfish if you let them. Keyword being let. It's _easy_ for them to turn out bad if left alone, so how can they be considered good? No one told them to go take candy from another kid. No one tells them that all the presents should be theirs and theirs alone. So if we didn't tell _them_ to be bad what does that mean?

[@xzavienflores9463]

Never mind second comment lol

[@eddieprince2545]

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[@ryanshapleighrobison6811]

Babies are incapable of cash ping great genus.

[@benban8055]

Nope... babies do not possess ability to make a judgment call, but babies are instinctive. They do not know right from wrong, but they instinctively incline towards right and instinctively they repel from wrong. They do not evaluate.

[@jorgefelix73]

This is stupid. You amateurs need to learn how to science. Did the color of the shirt play a role? Did their position (wheter they were placed on the left or right) influence their decisions? One bunny "helped" the steuggling bunny. The other bunny was aggressive and made a loud noise. Maybe you scared the baby? She/he chose that one that didnt frighten him/her? I read something about this months, if not a year ago, this very same study. Its old, and its wrong

[@thomasparisithinkhub]

They explain how the reverse every detail for half of the experiments to rule out the possibility that color, placement etc... plays a role in the babies decision making process. These types of experiments are extremely common and all seem to point to the same conclusion; that we are born with an innate understanding of right from wrong.

[@freightagent7122]

Wow this is totally a bunch of garbage . babys are not born knowing right from wrong .

[@Dralyn06]

Whatever you wanna think

[@fukkyouthatswhy]

OK so right or wrong basically means giving priority to an option over another option within the context based on reasons and perception, now if you set survival as a context and life inherently didn't know right from wrong within this context or to prioritize what conditions or behaviors over the other options of within nature and nurture to ensure prolonged survival of a specie you wouldn't be here commenting about how babies or life inherently doesn't know shit about right or wrong , life probably wouldn't have even taken off from the cell stage or whichever stage lifed developed the capcity to distinguish between variables as right or wrong in regards to survival