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Episode 24: The Perils of Empathy (with Paul Bloom)

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The Role of Babies in Preference

Research shows that babies have rudimentary capacities to tell good guys from bad guys as early as three months of age. Babies also, babies and young children show immediately form groups favoring their own group over others. May: There's some reason to believe, and I explore this in my book, that racism, per se, is not innate.

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