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PRenée Baillargeon, a professor of psychology, said, "This suggests that infants already have expectations about how leaders should behave and evaluate leaders as meeting or not these expectations.
"It therefore means that they expect parents, daycare teachers and other authority figures to intervene and correct the situation when a transgression occurs."
"A leader who ignores a transgression, in the eyes of a baby, is the one who shirks his responsibilities."
And she said that could explain the popularity of Punch & Judy and fairy tales.
"Yes, that makes sense," she says. "All infants seem to be born with a small set of abstract moral expectations, including equity, harm prevention, group support, and authority. An expectation of equity seems to be innate.
"It's partly why they like fairy tales and shows that play with these elements."
The shows of Punch and Judy arrived for the first time in Great Britain in 1662 and have since become a staple of children's entertainment.
The results were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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