Babies approve of punishment for bad behaviour from as young as 8 months, a new study has found. This comes just months after research found that babies could tell the difference between right and wrong from 18 months.
Kiley Hamlin, from the University of B.C. in the US, carried out the research on around 200 babies for over three years at Yale University, Connecticut and Temple University, Pennsylvania.
Using puppets her team determined that babies noticed bad behaviour and approved of punishment for those who behaved badly.
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