Babies as young as 3 months old can tell right from wrong. You might find this hard to believe, but its true.

This finding comes from researchers at Yale University’s Infant Cognition Center, also known as “The Baby Lab.

According to these researchers, babies can actually tell good from evil, even as young as 3 months old. They also suggest that babies at just a few months old can judge a person’s character.

In their experiment, they used puppets to demonstrate good and bad behavior. In one example, a puppet is struggling to open a box. Another puppet i.e. the “good” puppet, helps it open the box, while the “bad” puppet, slams the box shut.

They noticed that in more than 80% of the times that experiment is conducted, babies will select the “good” puppet when presented with both puppets and given the chance to choose either one.

Paul Bloom, a professor of psychology at Yale University and author of the new book “Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil,” told CNN that,

“Humans are born with a hard-wired morality, a sense of good and evil is bred in the bone”

Bloom also believes that babies are born with an inherent bias whereby they strongly favour people they know and are familiar with over everyone else.

“They prefer puppets who have the same tastes as them and they actually want the puppets with the different tastes — they like other puppets who punish them,”

 

“We are naturally moral beings, but our environment can enhance — or sadly, degrade — this innate moral sense,” Bloom said.

 

“So if you realize kids come in a world with their own beliefs and judgments and propensities and expectations, it gives you more respect for them, and it also helps you parent them, helps you know how to make them into more moral people.”

What do you think? Do you agree that babies can tell between right and wrong?