ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021
Toddlers draw broad negative inferences from wrongdoers' moral violations.
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- Origin and Development of Moral Sense: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Pooled it
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- 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
- Toddlers expect ingroup loyalty to override personal preferences when outgroups are present.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Eleven-Month-Old Infants Preferentially Look at Helpers But Do Not Reliably Evaluate Inconsistent Actors.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2026Article
- The Cognitive Architecture of Infant Attachment.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2025Review
- Evolving general cooperation with a Bayesian theory of mind.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Core Moral Concepts and the Sense of Fairness in Human Infants.Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.) · 2025Review
- Infants expect some degree of positive and negative reciprocity between strangers.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Infants can use temporary or scant categorical information to individuate objects.Cognitive psychology · 2024Article
- Do Bad People Deserve Empathy? Selective Empathy Based on Targets' Moral Characteristics.Affective science · 2023Review
- Helpers or halos: examining the evaluative mechanisms underlying selective prosociality.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Generalizing across moral sub-domains: infants bidirectionally link fairness and unfairness to helping and hindering.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
By 2 y of age, children possess expectations about several different moral principles. Building on these results, we asked whether children who observed a wrongdoer violate a principle would draw negative inferences from this violation about how the wrongdoer was likely to behave in other contexts. In four experiments, 25-mo-old toddlers (
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