it s hard to believe, but these little babies are helping to answer one of life s biggest questions is are we born knowing right from wrong? a lot of activity. reporter: researchers here at the cognition center they believe that humans are born with an innate sense of moshl believes, which means babies don t need to be taught the difference between right and wrong. they are born already knowing it. we watched babies as young as 3 months old as they were presented with a puppet show. here a puppet struggles to open a box. we see a green bunny that helps to open the box. good behavior, good bunny. then an orange bunny slams the box shut and run away. bad behavior,bunny. when given a choice between the two, 80% of babies chose the kbood bunny.
saying by grabbing with her hands, megan shows she understands the difference between good and bad. when it comes to the social world, little megan here was hugging that s cute. she s showing the really typical response of all of the babies that come in. they gravitate towards the helpful characters and friendly characters and from very early on. how do we know what she s really thinking? well, we don t know the subtle tis of what she s thinking but we find when they look at a social interaction between two individuals they can tell whether that s a positive or negative one and they re drawn towards the positive character. up goes the curtain. reporter: connor and sochi watch the same show. nice bunny, mean bunny. according to the studies, over 80% of the time, the nice bunny ends up in the arms of the baby. wynn and her team wanted to see if babies eastern younger than 6 months would recognize good and bad behavior. so they tried this experiment
believe babies are not taught the difference between good and bad, but instead are born knowing it. as these babies grow, there moral beliefs are enhanced by parents or society, but they aren t created by them. the studies are conducted with the help of puppet shows. the puppets act out good and bad behave eer. watch as his puppet struggles to open the bocts. a green bunny tum comes and help. green bunny, nice and helpful. then an orange bunny comes along and slams the box shut. orange bunny, mean and unhelpful. the actions are repeated a number of times. what does this mean to 6-month-old megan? she watches the show, and is then presented with the two puppets. the nice green bunny and the mean orange bunny. who do you like? megan grabbed for the green bunny. the nice one. dr. karen wynn runs the lab