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Babies Helpful Hurtful Playmates - Culture, Family, Travel, Consumer Reviews - Posted: 21st Nov, 2007 - 9:40pm
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Babies as young as 6 to 10 months old showed crucial social judging skills before they could talk
Babies Can Tell Helpful, Hurtful Playmates
I saw a show recently where they showed that young babies know a lot more than we credit them for. This is also an interesting study:
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| WASHINGTON (AP) -- Even infants can tell the difference between naughty and nice playmates, and know which to choose, a new study finds. Babies as young as 6 to 10 months old showed crucial social judging skills before they could talk, according to a study by researchers at Yale University's Infant Cognition Center published in Thursday's journal Nature. The infants watched a googly eyed wooden toy trying to climb roller-coaster hills and then another googly eyed toy come by and either help it over the mountain or push it backward. They then were presented with the toys to see which they would play with. Nearly every baby picked the helpful toy over the bad one. The babies also chose neutral toys -- ones that didn't help or hinder -- over the naughty ones. And the babies chose the helping toys over the neutral. "It's incredibly impressive that babies can do this," said study lead author Kiley Hamlin, a Yale psychology researcher. "It shows that we have these essential social skills occurring without much explicit teaching." |
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