{"id":155,"date":"2014-02-24T08:56:08","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T14:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/swk504\/?p=155"},"modified":"2014-02-11T22:23:38","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T04:23:38","slug":"are-babies-really-born-with-morality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/swk504\/2014\/02\/24\/are-babies-really-born-with-morality\/","title":{"rendered":"Are babies really born with morality?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 id=\"yui_3_8_0_1_1392080339538_433\"><a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/videos\/born-good-babies-help-unlock-the-origins-of-morality-50135408\/\">Born good? Babies help unlock the origins of morality<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>1. Researchers state that with babies as young as three months old, more than 75% chose the &#8220;good&#8221; toy, or puppet with the yellow shirt , over the &#8220;bad&#8221; toy or puppet with the blue shirt, after watching the puppet with the blue shirt perform a positive and a negative action toward the puppet with the yellow shirt. It is with these findings that the researchers assert that babies are born with a baseline of morality already in place. Although 75% is a relatively high number, do the findings then infer that the other 25% of babies chose the &#8220;bad&#8221; puppet, or no puppet at all?<\/p>\n<p>2. If the other 25% did choose the &#8220;bad&#8221; puppet, does that necessarily correlate to those babies having no morals?<\/p>\n<p>3. Do more boy babies or more girls babies have a greater propensity to exhibit moral character?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born good? Babies help unlock the origins of morality 1. Researchers state that with babies as young as three months old, more than 75% chose the &#8220;good&#8221; toy, or puppet with the yellow shirt , over the &#8220;bad&#8221; toy or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/swk504\/2014\/02\/24\/are-babies-really-born-with-morality\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":383,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/swk504\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/swk504\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/swk504\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/swk504\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/383"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/swk504\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/swk504\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/swk504\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/swk504\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/swk504\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/swk504\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}