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> But there’s a catch — it turns out that seeing an individual mistreating someone else does not always cause children to expect them to behave immorally in the
by novia 5y ago
> But there’s a catch — it turns out that seeing an individual mistreating someone else does not always cause children to expect them to behave immorally in the future. The researchers saw this when they repeated their experiment, except this time the toddlers first witnessed a dog puppet mistreating a rabbit (as opposed to a fellow dog) before watching the dog share out a pair of toys.
> In this scenario, toddlers gazed longer when the dog went on to make an unequal sharing decision, suggesting that they still expected the puppet to be fair.
- mrweasel 5y agoWhat's your point, it's followed by: > Only when the researchers ensured that the dog engaged in three sequential acts of bullying towards the rabbit did the children’s gaze patterns suggest that they no longer expected it to act fairly in the next social interaction.
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- thrwyoilarticle 5y agoThis kind of study can't become very rigorous. Even the acting makes it impossible to be double blind. There's the possibility that the toddlers are staring because they just saw 'violence' - or because it's later in the day and this group is more tired.