nyny

hmmm....

With the coming of the new year, SEED magazine ran an article titled, "The Vanguard of Science: We picked a few of the most exciting research areas and asked leading scientists: Where is your field heading in 2007?"

Here's what Yale University's Paul Bloom had to say about Developmental Psychology:

For a long time, developmental psychologists have had little to say about questions such as when children start to believe in God, what they think about the relationship between body and soul, and how they judge people in terms of good or evil. But this is changing, in large part because of theoretical developments in fields such as evolutionary theory and cross-cultural psychology. We can now make substantive claims about why religious belief and moral thought exist in the first place, and derive some interesting predictions about what should and should not be innate. And we can test these predictions using the same sorts of methods that have been so successful in exploring the origins of physical and social understanding. The big news in 2007 is that we should see the first published studies that explore moral and religious thought in very young children, perhaps in babies.

I don't know about you, but I am very interested and anxious to see what Mr. Bloom and his colleages discover this year!

posted by becka @ 5:50 PM