Incredible as it may seem, it seems that a baby has the ability to judge others when he is only six months old. These are the results of the research carried out by a group of experts in psychology belonging to the American University of Yale and has been published in the prestigious scientific journal Nature.
To reach this conclusion, the researchers studied a group of babies between six and ten months of age, who prepared a kind of theatrical function with simple cartoons, two characters appeared, a ball (climber) and a triangle (collaborator), the first one tried to climb a hill, but he couldn't, so the triangle helped him.
But then a square (boycott) shows its evil nature, as it pushed the ball in the opposite direction preventing it from reaching the top. Babies were also shown another animation that neither collaborated nor hindered the work of the ball, it is the neutral character. The psychologists were able to verify in another experiment the attitude that the babies showed to each character, where a clear preference for the triangle (collaborator) was perceived. Different tests were carried out to reiterate this attitude and so it was, babies preferred the collaborator and the neutral rather than the boycott.
According to the doctor in Psychology Kiley Hamlin who participated in the research, this attitude of the babies is not given by the parents or educators and affirms that “the humans begin in the social evaluation long before what was thought and supports the vision of that the ability to value people based on their relationships and social behaviors is universal and not based on learning. ”
