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Intentions and Their Contexts in the Moral Judgments of Children and Adults
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Darley, John M.; And Others – Child Development, 1978
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Elementary School Students, Justice
Construction and Validation of Simplified, Group-Administerable Equivalent to the Moral Judgment Interview.
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Gibbs, John C.; And Others – Child Development, 1982
A group-administerable version of Kohlberg's Moral Judgment Interview (MJI) was psychometrically evaluated. Results showed that the Sociomoral Reflection Measure has acceptable concurrent validity with the MJI as well as high levels of construct validity and reliability. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Adults, Children, College Students, Measures (Individuals)
A Longitudinal Study of Moral Reasoning.
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Walker, Lawrence J. – Child Development, 1989
Examines several issues concerning Gilligan's and Kohlberg's models of moral orientations and Kohlberg's model of moral stages in a longitudinal study of 233 subjects aged 5 to 63 years. Results revealed few violations of the stage sequence over the two-year longitudinal interval. (RJC)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Age Differences, Children
Children's Judgments of Psychological Harm in Normal and Noncanonical Situations.
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Helwig, Charles C.; Zelazo, Philip David; Wilson, Mary – Child Development, 2001
Investigated 3-, 5-, and 7-year-olds' and adults' integration of information about intentions, acts, and outcomes in moral judgments of psychological harm. Found that participants at all ages judged it wrong to inflict fear or embarrassment on unwilling participants. Younger children tended to use outcome rules when assigning punishment; older…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Childhood Attitudes, Fear
Developmental Changes in Ideas about Lying.
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Peterson, Candida C.; And Others – Child Development, 1983
Videotaped stories depicting deliberate lies and unintentionally untrue statements were presented to 200 subjects evenly divided into the following age groups: 5, 8, 9, 11 years, and adult. Definitions of lying were seen to change gradually over this age range. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Irreversible, Stepwise Sequence in the Development of Moral Judgment: A Longitudinal Study of Males and Females
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Holstein, Constance Boucher – Child Development, 1976
A longitudinal study of the moral development of 52 upper middle class adolescents and their parents was undertaken to evaluate the validity of Kohlberg's six-stage model of moral judgment development. (BRT)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Developmental Stages, Junior High Schools
The Perception of Social Conventionality by Children and Adults.
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Gabennesch, Howard – Child Development, 1990
Some studies indicate that individuals recognize conventional norms as social contrivances; others, that individuals reify social formations as something other than social products. Questions about comparatively transparent rules and the use of simplistic questions for complex phenomena give an exaggerated portrayal of individuals' awareness of…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Standards, Children, Ethnocentrism
Judging Others Who Hold Opposite Beliefs: The Development of Belief-Discrepancy Reasoning.
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Enright, Robert D.; Lapsley, Daniel K. – Child Development, 1981
Examined judgments of intolerance given by children, adolescents, and adults toward disagreeing others. The evidence suggested that intolerance may be a lower level of reasoning in a social cognitive developmental progression. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Age Differences, Children
Universality and Variation in Moral Judgement: A Longitudinal and Cross-sectional Study in Turkey.
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Nisan, Mordecai; Kohlberg, Lawrence – Child Development, 1982
Rural and city subjects ages 10 through 28 were individually interviewed on Kohlberg's moral dilemmas. Responses were analyzed according to a new manual, which calls for matching responses to criteria judgments. Results support the claim for structural universality in moral judgment. Differences between rural and urban subjects are discussed.…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Cross Sectional Studies, Cultural Differences