Good guys vs. bad guys: How early do babies know the difference?

Good guys vs. bad guys: How early do babies know the difference? - Kiley Hamlin, UBC

Canada Foundation for Innovation / Fondation canadienne pour l'innovation

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By Sabrina Daniel
As head of the Centre for Infant Cognition at the University of British Columbia, Kiley Hamlin is interested in the development of the human mind and how we understand and evaluate the social world. One of her research projects looks for the earliest signs of morality by measuring how early in life infants can differentiate between good and bad behaviour in others.
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КОМЕНТАРІ: 31

@trudycampbell4962 Місяць тому

I was fascinated by Dr.Jill Bolte Taylor - A Stroke of Insight author , where with only her right hemisphere intact after her stroke she could feel/sense immediately which Drs Nurses were kind and good and liked her and she would recoil from the ones that she knew didn’t like her or care about her. Shut down the left logical and programmed side of the brain and we operate on insight and instinct and or our own innate knowingness of what Love is , as that’s our default setting.

@pdz-pk4od 8 днів тому

It is not morality. It is survival instinct. I am glad to hear that infants already got it.

@ColleenLytle-sq8tx 25 днів тому

Fascinating! I always knew it - I made a pact with myself that I wouldn't make noises and faces at babies when I was young (I was mortified that my class act of a Mother could turn into a blithering ninny @ the sight of an infant). I've always just interacted with them like they'd understand (I think it's alot like animals, I get pictures in my head and I think they can read that). I feel that they're everything we are - minus vocabulary and experience. My Pa always treated me like that, and I treat kids/animals (and, yes...even my plants🙄) that way.

@artisttjan 2 роки тому

this was very interesting

@jeremyhodge6216 Місяць тому

Great learning video that determines bad from bad. I'm glad I saw this video 😁

@DorisPeacock-wo1jx 20 днів тому

Very interesting!

@joseignaciodelpino9763 3 роки тому

Desde siempre queremos el Bien y rechazamos el Mal

@alainamarcel9135 27 днів тому

What this told me is that very young we kids learn they aren't good and we condition them to against that. When you feel something isn't right, making you feel good, feels bad. It's bad. You're using the same skills as these babies and ignoring it. That's why you're in crap relationship or stuck with toxic family but questioning it despite your negative feelings.

@voraciousreader3341 16 днів тому

I think you completely lost the point of this study in a very disturbing direction, drawing erroneous conclusions, and complicating the results of a very simple study. *_It had NOTHING to do with proving children think *THEY_*_ are bad, but whether or not they could make the distinction of situations OUTSIDE OF THEMSELVES.*_ The development of personal identity and self worth is extremely complicated, with endless variables, so it’s meaningless to assign such meaningless comments about being bad making you feel good, or whatever it was that you said. It’s probably a good idea to stay away from psychology as a subject unless you take university level classes.

@joshm3342 9 днів тому

Some people have a keen sense of judging others, even as children. Others NEVER learn. Notice how bad politicians keep getting votes? Those votes are from folks who never learn.

@Wolfen443 2 місяці тому

Ok, so what happens as we grow up and discover that the bad guys are not discouraged from doing bad things or that even the so called good guys can do evil things for a different reason? The original plain picture of clear values becomes obsolete.

@RawOlympia 2 місяці тому

indeed, all these studies that involve money are used against us.

@wilpri Місяць тому

That doesn't change one's goodness or recognition of badness. Values won't change, just results.

@vishalmishra3046 3 дні тому

*Are unconscious biases healthy or should humanity try to override them with conscious biases* in the name of being more civilized / liberal ?

@RawOlympia 2 місяці тому

there was that creepy shrink who wore a monster mask around his baby

@gio5969 27 днів тому

Morality at 6 years old. Still exactly the same at 20, 30 and 60.

@anniehills3580 Місяць тому

Great info!!!❤

@yvonneplant9434 2 місяці тому

I believe some babies have a 6th sense or 3rd eye. They know...

@StressRUs 2 місяці тому

Ouch! This erstwhile if naive young UBC researcher apparently knows little of trauma psychology, or that a child traumatized by an adult will always blame him/herself for the pain inflicted by an adult figure, as the chance of that adult protecting an innocent relatively helpless child from even greater harm by an outsider are greater than blaming the abusive known adult. Good luck with your study of playtime, but far topo many "unintended" and vulnerable children are being abused and developing a whole range of survival reactions (dissociative disorders) just to stay alive another day. 37% of American children are "unintended" and 8% are unwanted (CDC). The true number of us being abandoned/abused is unknown.

@RawOlympia 2 місяці тому

It's the premise of MK Ultra, where you no longer trust yourself. This is a naif, many babies are hit on the head day one! Many normalize trauma, internalize, bond, etc. Poor infants. The obvious is always not so obvious to the academic science community. They drop animals from tall building to see if it hurts. Just, inane.

@trudycampbell4962 Місяць тому

Yes Trauma …I’m guessing babies/infants and young children will always choose to stay with their mom ( or dad) even if they are abused by them as that’s all they know and they might be further traumatized if removed from them..as that’s their parent(s)..the ones they’ve bonded with or attached to in their home or environment. Might be another reason to go back to environments where it’s the elders and/or the village that raises the child ..🤔

@StressRUs Місяць тому

@@trudycampbell4962 I have found that comparing our "modern" deteriorated (?) society filled with isolated nuclear families or even single parents are an artifact when compared with our ancestral tight knit migratory Hunter-Gatherer clan/band social structures, in which each child was precious and attended to by every other clan member. I liken our nuclear families/single parent "families" to the lifeboats bobbing in dangerous waters after the sinking of the mother ship (Titanic). We are nearing the end of times, IMHO. Climate collapse will do the rest, if not one war or another.