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.
Paul Bloom joins us in the second segment for a lively discussion about the value of empathy as a guide our moral decisions. And in our first scoop, we talk about Paul's new book (coming in November) Just Babies: The Origin of Good and Evil , racist babies, and how 80s sitcoms changed the world. In the first segment, Dave and Tamler face the music and try to respond to a listener's criticisms of their episode on slurs and offensiveness (Episode 22) .
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Special Guest: Paul Bloom.
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