Even small children expect that in assigning rewards certain rules must be followed. A study was performed on 80 infants aged 17 months to understand if the presence of a dominant figure modifies how they view goods belonging to the community should be shared. The infants were showed a video where a puppet imposed himself...
It is difficult not to be moved by a toddler who is taking its first steps, who laughs when we play hide and seek and repeats the words it has just heard. Science is beginning to understand that a big head compared to the rest of the body, big deer like eyes, small ears, soft...
For various reasons it is easy to find oneself in a situation where people speak in a foreign language. Does this affect our way of thinking? If to save five people you had to push a person to certain death in front of a speeding train, would you do it? Studies show that if this...
Children’s books could be a way to spread moral values and scientific info. Four to six-year old children were read, and shown, illustrated books of people who were generous, kind and unselfish. Another similarly aged group of kids was shown and read the same stories, but the characters were all substituted with animals. In a...
Small children often speak about themselves in the third person. A child who wants a sweet may say: Paul wants a sweet”. Studies in adults might explain this behavior. Psychologists believe that speaking softly to oneself in the third person helps overcome stressful situations. If Luca is distraught because his girlfriend left him, his emotional...
