Thursday, March 02, 2006
Babies -- Happy to Help
More evidence for the power of social incentives. Babies are willing to incur costs to help a random scientist. They clearly incur costs (watch the video) and get little in return other then their own sense of satisfaction. Does this reflect innate preference (and thus more selfish behavior is learned) or does it reflect that up until this point in their lives they've only been exposed to helpful people?
// posted by BW @ 6:17 PM 
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