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CURRENT DIRECTIONS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 22, Issue 3, Pages 186-193Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0963721412470687
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moral development; infancy; evolution
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Although developmental psychologists traditionally explore morality from a learning and development perspective, some aspects of the human moral sense may be built-in, having evolved to sustain collective action and cooperation as required for successful group living. In this article, I review a recent body of research with infants and toddlers, demonstrating surprisingly sophisticated and flexible moral behavior and evaluation in a preverbal population whose opportunity for moral learning is limited at best. Although this work itself is in its infancy, it supports theoretical claims that human morality is a core aspect of human nature.
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