“I know who the bad guy is!” Infants map the word “bad” to hinderers, but not the word “good” to helpers

IntroductionThough a wealth of research has found that young infants have the capacity to evaluate helping and hindering agents, it is nevertheless unclear whether these evaluations reflect mere social evaluations or more mature understanding of moral concepts. The present experiments probed the nature of infants' evaluations by testing whether they associate the morally-relevant words “good” and “bad” with helpers and hinderers.MethodsIn Experiment 1, 32 19-month-olds watched a live puppet show