15 Mar
2017
15 Mar
'17
3:40 p.m.
Dear all,
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its talk
by:
*Renee Baillargeon (University of Illinois)*
*Date: *Tuesday, March 21st, 2017 – 17:00-18:30
*Host:* Gergely Csibra
*Infants’ Moral Compass*
How do infants evaluate individuals’ actions toward others? I will suggest
that the moral sensitivities that underlie these early evaluations are best
characterized as a moral compass, with distinct sociomoral principles
leading infants to form nuanced expectations about what actions are
acceptable or unacceptable in specific contexts. My talk will focus on two
principles in particular, fairness and ingroup support. With respect to
fairness, I will present evidence that even young infants possess an
abstract notion of equity. Next, I will present experiments on two
corollaries of the principle of ingroup support, ingroup care and ingroup
loyalty. These experiments indicate that when watching interactions among
unfamiliar adults in minimal groups, infants hold different expectations
for interactions within and between groups, in line with prior research
with older children and adults on ingroup favoritism in minimal groups.
*Location: *Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7, room
101.
See more at:
*https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2017-03-21/cdc-talk-renee-baillargeon-university-illinois
<https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2017-03-21/cdc-talk-renee-baillargeon-university-illinois>*
We are looking forward to seeing you there!
Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events
--
Katarina Begus
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Cognitive Development Center
Central European University
Budapest, Hungary
+36 1 327 3000 / 2777
https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/people/katarina-begus
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