A Canadian study, babies are able to distinguish truth from falsehood and they refuse to imitate the people they are unreliable. The research focused on 60 infants aged 13 to 16 months.
Infants like to replicate what they see and hear - gestures, intonations, phrases - but they refuse to imitate the people they are unreliable, according to a study at Concordia University in Montreal.
More observant than we think, babies are able to distinguish truth from falsehood, according to the study published in the journal Infant Behavior and Development, and most refuse to imitate an adult who has previously misled.
"As young children, babies record what they watch and make the difference between right and wrong. They then use this information to guide their learning, "said Diane Poulin-Dubois, Department of Psychology at Concordia University and a member of the Centre for Research in Human Development.
Specifically, infants deliberately choose not to follow the example of someone they perceive as unreliable.
The research focused on 60 infants aged 13 to 16 months, divided into two groups and compared to adults "evaluators" who looked into a box and expressed their enthusiasm. The boxes were then distributed to children who could verify that they contained a toy or not, and check the credibility of their partner.
A second task of imitation followed: the same appraiser was a switch with his forehead to the light. Only 34% of infants who had to deal with an unreliable adult imitated this behavior irrational, against 61% of the group met with the evaluators reliable.
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