Babies can be good at relationships and other things too: arguments for moral cognition in infancy

Key Points

• The aim is to explore whether infants have an innate moral core or if behaviors can be explained by relationship evaluations.
• Analyzed existing evidence related to infants' moral cognition and prosocial behaviors.
• Critically compared infants' helping behaviors and imitation against relationship-centric theories.
• Highlight that current evidence does not consistently support a relationship-centric view of infants' moral understanding.
• Identify key findings that contradict the notion that infants' prosocial behaviors are solely based on relationship evaluations.