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Babies Want Fair Leaders

Science Quickly

Scientific American

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4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2019

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Babies as young as a year and a half want leaders to fix situations in which they see someone else being treated unfairly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.8

I'm Christine Herman.

0:38.3

Anyone who's ever been with a toddler can tell you,

0:42.3

if they're upset about something, they will let you know.

0:48.3

Scientists have been aware of this behavior, but what they did not know until now is that if babies as young as a year and a half old see someone else being treated unfairly,

1:02.0

they expect the leader, the parent or the caregiver in that situation, to step in and do something about it.

1:08.0

Babies evaluate others constantly. Reneeé Bayerjohn is a psychologist

1:13.4

at the University of Illinois. She led the research on babies expecting fairness. When these

1:19.1

transgressions occur, babies evaluate parents and other leaders and say, well, you saw this transgression.

1:28.4

You know this is not fair.

1:30.4

Are you going to do something about it?

1:32.9

If you don't, then you are shirking your responsibilities,

1:37.3

and it makes you less of a leader, less of a parent.

1:40.3

That's right. Babies are judging you.

1:43.3

Bayer-Jean says it seems babies are born with these

1:46.3

expectations of what a leader is and how they should behave. The work is in the proceedings of the

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