A sociomoral quarrel: a critique of nativist ideas about infants' sociomoral insights
Qiuyi Kong
The majority view seems to be that children have an “innate moral core,” with a wide range of tasks used to defend this argument. We examine exemplars of each task for whether they really require moral understanding, including tasks tapping children's empathy, their theory of mind, the moral-conventional distinction, helpers vs. hinderers, fairness, aggression and hierarchies. We focus on both replication issues and interpretation issues, and in each case, we argue that there is no clear evidenc