It's only animacy (but I like it): An alternative view on the origins of socio-moral cognition

The early emergence of socio-moral preferences in infancy has generated intense debate within developmental psychology. A central question concerns whether infants' selective responses to prosocial and antisocial agents reflect an innate moral core or can be more parsimoniously explained by domain-general perceptual mechanisms. Although a growing body of evidence indicates that young infants evaluate social interactions, most findings derive from studies conducted after several months of postnat