Do Infants Attribute Moral Traits? Fourteen-Month-Olds' Expectations of Fairness Are Affected by Agents' Antisocial Actions

Do Infants Attribute Moral Traits? Fourteen-Month-Olds' Expectations of Fairness Are Affected by Agents' Antisocial Actions

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 carr...

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Main Authors: Luca Surian, Mika Ueno, Shoji Itakura, Marek Meristo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
infants
fairness
distributive justice
moral development
moral judgment
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01649/full

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https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01649/full

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