ScienceDaily (Dec. 6, 2011) — Babies love to imitate. Ask any parent and they’ll report how infants mimic sounds, facial expressions and actions they observe. Now new research from Concordia University, published in the journal Infant Behavior and Development, has found that infants can even differentiate between credible and non-credible sources. Simply put, most babies won’t follow along if they have been previously tricked by an adult.

“Like older children, infants keep track of an individual’s history of being accurate or inaccurate and use this information to guide their subsequent learning,” says senior researcher Diane Poulin-Dubois, a professor in the Concordia Department of Psychology and member of the Centre for Research in Human Development. “Specifically, infants choose not to learn from someone who they perceive as unreliable.”

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111206131944.htm

Editor’s note: The Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings upon him) said  “Kids are like young adults so treat them as such”.