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from researchers at Boston College in Massachusetts, U.S. and the University of Queensland in Australia explores whether four- to nine-year-old-children consider past choices when making moral judgements of others. The findings showed that from the age of six, children considered what characters could have done when making judgment of how nice or mean they are behaving and that four and five- year-olds' moral judgements were influenced only by the actual outcome.
At the start of the first study, the children were presented with an iPad and shown a training procedure with images of items in a cupboard dropped into a character's possession. The purpose of this exercise was to make sure the children understood the items and the main characters they would see in the main story. They were also introduced to a five-point"nice-to-mean" scale .
In the second study, the story centered around a main character who was hosting a"Lego Party." Characters with a choice always selected between two items whereas the characters without a choice always selected the single item available. For example, some children might have rated characters differently depending on whether they selected the last item in the cupboard, or if there was another item left over.
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