Babies discriminate between evil-doers and do-gooders

If six-month-old babies could cast their vote next November, they'd pick the bleeding-heart candidate.

Babies as young as six months old prefer helpers to those who interfere, according to researchers at Yale.

Young study participants watched a red circle struggle climbing a hill. A yellow triangle boosted the poor circle up the mountain. Meanwhile, a nasty blue square shoved the red circle back down to the bottom of the hill.

When six- and ten-month old babies were then offered a yellow triangle or a blue square, they chose the helpful yellow triangle.

Who wouldn't, right?

"It's incredibly impressive that babies can do this," said study lead author Kiley Hamlin, a Yale psychology researcher. "It shows that we have these essential social skills occurring without much explicit teaching."

Check out the experiment and the enthusiasm of babies submitting their ballots for the good Samaritan here.

Via AP.