Posts tagged ‘morality’
Video Slideshow: 5 Strategies to Raise Moral, Kind Children
Richard Weissbourd, a psychologist at the Harvard graduate school of education, and the Making Caring Common Project summarize recommendations about how to raise children to become caring, respectful and responsible people.
Morality: A Matter of Nature and Nurture
In a New York Times magazine feature in May 2010, Yale professor Paul Bloom describes the research on the moral instincts of babies being conducted by his research team at the Infant Cognition Center at Yale University. The researchers found that the significant majority of babies as young as 5 months old prefer good (helpful) characters over bad (hindering) ones, moreover babies at 8 months show preference for characters that act justly by either rewarding a good guy, or punishing a bad actor.
However, that is not to say that babies have “moral” preferences in all cases. (more…)
