What your baby knows might freak you out

By Jay

Can three month old baby know it is right or not? According to the CNN article ‘What your baby know might freak you out’ by Kelly Wallace says they can think and know what is wrong and right.

Yale University’s Infant Cognition Center, known as “the Baby Lab” made the conclusion quoting from article “babies can actually tell good from evil, even as young as 3 months old”. Researchers had experiment by showing the puppet play. In the play there were two teddy bears, green teddy bear and red teddy bear, and zebra. Zebra tries to open the box and green teddy bear helps zebra, but red teddy bear interrupt while zebra tried to open the box. By showing this puppet play, we could know about babies’ reaction of this situation.

More than 80% of the experiment, babies chosen good puppet that is green teddy bear. To cover other variable, they changed the role of teddy bear. The red puppet was helping the zebra and the green teddy bear. However, the result of experiment was same. They choose the helping puppet, red teddy bear. Even the babies are very young that they can’t reach and hold the puppet. The babies show their choice by their eye contact by looking at green teddy bear which helped zebra more long time. Therefore, the conclusion of this experiment is babies can judge what is wrong and right.

Based on this experiment, we could infer that even the babies are young they have judgments of weather it is wrong or right, because quoting "Humans are born with a hard-wired morality, a sense of good and evil is bred in the bone," wrote Paul Bloom, in an opinion piece for CNN.com. Paul bloom said, quoting "We are naturally moral beings, but our environment can enhance -- or sadly, degrade -- this innate moral sense,", and the experiment that Yale university had proven that the babies have moral sense to judge.

After reading this article, I felt, it is amazing research result, because I haven’t thought that babies can decide about the morality and I just thought that babies are learning about it. This article introduce about the research and whoever reads this article or knows about the article may have to change their actions especially parents. Babies born with their own thinks, beliefs and judgments and with that they grow by quoting the article “knowing the world is deep and dark and bright and beautiful.” We have to help babies to see more beautiful things and not  to forget their judgment rules.