two, over 80% of babies chose the good bunny. and with babies that are only three months old, it goes to about 90%. researchers at the baby lab are taking these studies even further. if babies recognize good characters and bad characters, what does it take for them to interact with a bad character? it s an experiment they nicknamed the deal with the devil. karen winn runs the yale baby lab and says research shows that babies are predisposed to want to interact with good people and avoid bad people. here s an example. up goes the curtain. 12-month-old lucy watches the puppet show repeatedly and seems to recognize the good behavior and bad behavior right away. after the show, the good green bunny and the bad orange bunny each offer lucy some graham crackers. the good bunny has just one cracker to offer, but the bad bunny has two. which one will lucy choose? lucy, whose do you want?
babies are predisposed to want to interact with good people and avoid bad people. here s an example. up goes the curtain. 12-year-old lucy watches the puppet show repeatedly and seems to recognize the good behavior and bad behavior right away. after the show, the good green bunny and the bad orange bunny each offer lucy some graham crackers. the good bunny has just one cracker to offer, but the bad bunny has two. which one will lucy choose? lucy, whose do you want? oh, that one? she takes the one cracker from the good puppet. it s a baby version of a sacrifice. most of them choose the one cracker from the nice guy rather than choosing two crackers from the mean guy. so it shows that babies are really willing to take a cost to avoid interacting with the mean guy. over 80% of babies will avoid
lab and says research shows that babies are predisposed to want to interact with good people and avoid bad people. here s an example. up goes the curtain. 12-month-old lucy watches the puppet show repeatedly and seems to recognize the good behavior and bad behavior right away. after the show, the good green bunny and the bad orange bunny each offer lucy some graham crackers. the good bunny has just one cracker to offer, but the bad bunny has two. which one will lucy choose? lucy, whose do you want? oh, that one? she takes the one cracker from the good puppet. it s a baby version of a sacrifice. most of them choose the one cracker from the nice guy rather than choosing two crackers from the mean guy. so it shows that babies are really willing to take a cost to avoid interacting with the mean guy.
so for half the babies the green shirted puppet is nice. for half the babies it s the orange-shirt puppet that s nice. what we find over and over again, it really doesn t relate to color of the shirt or which puppets on the left and on the right. it s who s been the positive character. even though these babies can t tell us what they re thinking, their actions here the the baby lab are helping us understand more about what s going on behind those eyes. it s really fascinating. a lot more going on behind their eyes than we probably previously thought. we just saw babies recognizing good behavior, bad behavior. in part two of our series tomorrow, we re going to look at situations where bad guys have something that babies want, and then we ll see what it takes for the baby to actually interact with the bad guy. after the show, the good green bunny and the bad orange bunny each offer lucy some graham crackers. the good bunny has just one cracker to offer, but the bad bunny has two. whi
a green bunny comes along and helps to open the box. 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. but what does this mean to 6-month-old meghan? 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 grabs for the green bunny, the nice one. dr. karen winn runs the yale baby lab. she says by grabbing with her hands, meghan shows she understands the difference between good and bad. when it comes to the social world, little meghan here who is 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 the friendly characters from very early on there. how do we know what she s really thinking? well, we don t know the