ArticleFrontiers in psychology2018
Do Infants Attribute Moral Traits? Fourteen-Month-Olds' Expectations of Fairness Are Affected by Agents' Antisocial Actions.
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- Origin and Development of Moral Sense: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Pooled it
- Infants use helping to infer the existence and strength of caring relationships.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Infants make moral character inferences in multi-agent social interactions.Communications psychology · 2026Article
- When revealed after the fact, selfish intentions undermine prosocial actions in 5-year-olds.PloS one · 2026Article
- Eleven-Month-Old Infants Preferentially Look at Helpers But Do Not Reliably Evaluate Inconsistent Actors.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2026Article
- Core Moral Concepts and the Sense of Fairness in Human Infants.Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.) · 2025Review
- Do Bad People Deserve Empathy? Selective Empathy Based on Targets' Moral Characteristics.Affective science · 2023Review
- Generalizing across moral sub-domains: infants bidirectionally link fairness and unfairness to helping and hindering.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Toddlers draw broad negative inferences from wrongdoers' moral violations.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Examining Infants' Individuation of Others by Sociomoral Disposition.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Do Infants in the First Year of Life Expect Equal Resource Allocations?Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Children's Trait Inference and Partner Choice in a Cooperative Game.Child developmentArticle
- Social Influences on Early Fairness Expectations in Toddlers: Siblings, Peers, and Caregivers.Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant StudiesArticle
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Abstract
We investigated whether and how infants link the domains of harm, help and fairness. Fourteen-month-old infants were familiarized with a character that either helped or hindered another agent's attempts to reach the top of a hill. Then, in the test phase they saw the helper or the hinderer carrying out an equal or an unequal distribution toward two identical recipients. Infants who saw the helper performing an unequal distribution looked longer than those who saw the helper performing an equal distribution, whereas infants who saw the hinderer performing an unequal distribution looked equally long than those who saw the hinderer performing an equal distribution. These results suggest that infants linked the hindering actions to a diminished propensity for distributive fairness. This provides support for theories that posit an early emerging ability to attribute moral traits to agents and to generate socio-moral evaluations of their actions.
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