 and developmental psychologists tell us that “children don’t understand complex emotions like guilt … until around age 7” (Nichols 2007: 261). However, according to Nichols, children make moral judgments much earlier. The crucial step in Nichols’ argument for this latter claim is that “a basic capacity for moral judgment is reflected by passing the moral/conventional task” (2004: 89). And, as Turiel and his colleagues have repeatedly shown, children succeed at the moral/conventional task—they give typical adult responses to schoolyard examples of moral and conventional transgressions—by the age of four or earlier. Since four year-olds can make moral judgments but don’t understand guilt, Nichols concludes that Gibbard’s version of sentimentalism is incompatible with the empirical  facts.[25]