Are babies born already hardwired to know the difference between good and evil?

Well, psychologists at Yale University found babies as young as six months old know the difference between good and evil.

'With the help of well designed experiments, you can see glimmers of moral thought, moral judgment and moral feeling even in the first year of life,” said Professor Paul Bloom, a psychologist at Yale University in Connecticut, who has devoted years to observing how moral sense can develop in babies. “A growing body of evidence suggests that humans do have a rudimentary moral sense from the very start of life.”

Bloom in a recent essay for the New York Times, explained more insights from the experiments that he and his colleagues had conducted at Yale’s Infant Cognition Center.

He says there's proof a 'moral code' may be instilled in the brain at birth.  Researchers used 'good' and 'bad' puppet characters to demonstrate - and nearly EVERY baby chose the good puppet over the bad one... some even smacked the bad puppet over the head!

**Dr. Paul Bloom’s Essay “The Moral Life of Babies” is in the New York Times.

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