Researchers have discovered that 3-year-old children appear to have a moral compass.
Investigators found that a young child’s helpfulness is tempered when they see that the person they intend to help has harmed another person.
Moreover, a child is less helpful when they see that the object of their attention meant to harm another, even if no harm was done.
That’s the conclusion of two new studies of 3-year-olds conducted by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.
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Investigators found that a young child’s helpfulness is tempered when they see that the person they intend to help has harmed another person.
Moreover, a child is less helpful when they see that the object of their attention meant to harm another, even if no harm was done.
That’s the conclusion of two new studies of 3-year-olds conducted by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.
