ABSTRACT

This chapter explores the developmental origins of our capacity to understand and judge the actions of others. In this chapter, I will cite extensive evidence according to which an infant possesses a minimal set of skills required for moral judgment already in the first 12 months of life. Such studies offer us an unparalleled opportunity of discovering humans’ socio-moral anticipations at the very beginning of life. Thus, investigating infants’ expectations about how individuals should behave towards one another is bound to clarify the structure of the human mind as it relates to intuitive socio-moral reasoning.