Department of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences,University of Trento,Italy.
IRCCS,Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi,ONLUS,Milano,Italy.
J Child Lang. 2019 Jan;46(1):98-110. doi: 10.1017/S0305000918000351. Epub 2018 Sep 5.
Infants begin to understand some of the meanings of the adjective good at around thirteen months, but it is not clear when they start to map it to concepts in the moral domain. We investigated infants' and toddlers' knowledge of good in the domains of help and fairness. Participants at 20 and 30 months were shown computer animations involving helpful and hindering agents, or agents who performed fair or unfair distributions, and were asked to "pick the good one". Toddlers at 30 months took good as referring to helping, but not to the fair agents. However, when asked "to pick one", they choose the fair distributor. These findings suggest that by 30 months toddlers have started to map good to some socio-moral features, such as a helping disposition, but not to fairness in distributive actions.
婴儿在大约 13 个月大时开始理解形容词“good”的一些含义，但尚不清楚他们何时开始将其映射到道德领域的概念上。我们研究了婴儿和幼儿在帮助和公平领域对“good”的认识。20 个月和 30 个月的参与者观看了涉及有帮助和有阻碍的代理或执行公平或不公平分配的代理的计算机动画，并被要求“选择好的一个”。30 个月大的幼儿将“good”理解为帮助，但不理解公平的代理。然而，当被问到“选择一个”时，他们选择了公平的分配者。这些发现表明，到 30 个月大时，幼儿已经开始将“good”映射到一些社会道德特征上，例如帮助的倾向，但不会映射到分配行为的公平性上。
