Eight Months Babies Can Already a grudge

News Health Articles - Eight Months Babies Can Already a grudge. Do not mess with a baby that has not even a year. Although it could only cry, eight-month-old infants already have a sense of resentment and annoyance towards those perceived evil.

According to a study conducted by the University of British Columbia, an eight-month-old infants already have the desire to keep people who do evil to him got rewarded.

The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that infants prefer negative behavior when it believes it deserves. The babies also do not like to someone who does not punish individuals who behave badly.



"These findings suggest that since the age of eight months, we watch the people that if we can put in danger and prefer to look at setting behavior that is inconsistent with social norms," said the researchers, Kiley Hamlin, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia launched seeprti The Globe and The Mail, Wednesday (11/30/2011).

In that study, researchers used a hand puppet to present four scenarios to 100 babies. The first puppet act good and bad on another puppet characters. Other dolls modeled give and take a toy from the first doll.

When asked to choose her favorite doll, baby doll prefer the wicked rather than punishing the character doll doll doll character who treats evil with good.

In another experiment, researchers asked 21-month-old baby to give or take a toy doll of either good or evil doll. These babies prefer to take the toys from the evil doll and gave it to a good doll.