Wonder Kids is a series of virtual talks on the fascinating world of child development, hosted each month through June 2021.
Led by the Directors of UBC’s Early Development Research Group – some of the world’s leading developmental psychologists – we invite you to join the conversation on language, learning and social development!
Speaker:
Dr. Kiley Hamlin, Professor & Canada Research Chair
Topic:
How do babies evaluate people?
Description:
Babies’ worlds are filled with different kinds of people, who engage in all sorts of different behaviours. How and when are babies capable of understanding how people act and interact? This talk will highlight some key research findings from the Centre for Infant Cognition, suggesting that from just a few months of age babies track and understand simple helpful and harmful interactions, react more positively to helpful acts than to harmful ones, and prefer helpful over harmful actors. This early-developing tendency to evaluate the sociomoral world may provide a foundation on which later moral development builds.
Register for Dr. Hamlin’s virtual talk here!
Video:
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