Neural Modulation of Young Children’s Responses to Adults’ Transgressions

This combined EEG and eye-tracking study found that, in real-life settings with adult wrongdoers, children’s reluctance to intervene in adults’ transgressions, such as not protesting to a wrongdoer or reporting the wrongdoings, strongly correlates with later waveforms, indicating that an increased emotional burden may be a barrier to moral action.