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Infants develop prosocial and moral behaviors through interaction and caring relationships, not innate knowledge. This process-relational approach highlights the interwoven nature of biology and social environment in early development.

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Area of Science:

Developmental Psychology
Moral Development
Process-Relational Theory

Background:

Children develop prosocial and moral agency through action and interaction.
Infants are not born with inherent knowledge of morality or prosociality.
Developmental systems theory emphasizes the interplay between biological and social factors.

Purpose of the Study:

To explain the emergence of prosocial and moral agency in children.
To propose a process-relational perspective on early development.
To highlight the role of interaction and caring relationships.

Main Methods:

Adoption of a process-relational perspective.
Application of developmental systems theory.
Focus on infants' interactive development within a human system.

Main Results:

Prosociality and morality emerge at the interactional level.
Biological and social development are interwoven and bidirectional.
Caring relationships are fundamental to infant development and personhood.

Conclusions:

Infants develop agency through active engagement with their environment and others.
Mutual responsiveness within caring relationships shapes infants into persons.
A process-relational view is essential for understanding moral and prosocial development.