Who's a racist?

[Chris]

So the "toddler" experiment. Apparently some women "proved" that 3 month old babies can pick the kind puppet over the mean puppet. But an Australian group tried to replicate the experiment and found that the kind puppet jumped for joy when it reached its goal. A three month old is going to go for the more interesting puppet. I seriously doubt a three month old "knew" that one puppet was helping and one puppet was hindering.

This experiment proved nothing about morality.

The point of the experiment was to show conscious knowledge and reasoning play a small part in moral judgements, that those are largely intuitive and shared. Remember these are chldren 6 to 10 months old prior to development of language let alone reasoning capabilities. Conscious reasoning about morality may well consist of rationalization of moral intuitions.

[Ravi]

The point of the experiment was to show conscious knowledge and reasoning play a small part in moral judgements, that those are largely intuitive and shared. Remember these are chldren 6 to 10 months old prior to development of language let alone reasoning capabilities. Conscious reasoning about morality may well consist of rationalization of moral intuitions.

Methinks you've not interacted much with infants and I'm beginning to wonder if the woman that did the study has either (in real life, I mean).

[Chris]

Methinks you've not interacted much with infants and I'm beginning to wonder if the woman that did the study has either (in real life, I mean).

Has nothing to do with me, ravi, but with the facts of child development and the basis of morality.