Do You Like Doughnuts?

When vick to visit the four year olds, you gave her a question to ask them about time and the difference between the past and the future. Let's have a listen to what some children think in action. If something has happened in the past, then there'll be some kind of present evidence of that right now. So if somebody's got their tooth brush in the past,. then you'll b e able to see that tooth brush right now. Somebody's going to get it in the future, they won't. What we were interested in is whether very young children shared the same intuitions about when they preferred pleasurable and painful events to actually occur. And what we find was four