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Parent and Peer Contexts for Children's Moral Reasoning Development.
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Walker, Lawrence J.; Hennig, Karl H.; Krettenauer, Tobias – Child Development, 2000
Examined predictors of children's moral reasoning development over 4-year period. Found that parental and friend interaction during moral conflict discussions influenced development differently. Minimal moral development was predicted by friends' cognitive challenges to the target child's moral reasoning and by parents' interfering interactions.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Context Effect, Longitudinal Studies, Moral Development
Children's Social Reasoning about Inclusion and Exclusion in Gender and Race Peer Group Contexts.
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Killen, Melanie; Stangor, Charles – Child Development, 2001
Investigated age and context differences in children's judgments about excluding peers from group activities on the basis of gender and race. Found that the vast majority of children rejected exclusion in contexts in which only stereotypes justified exclusion. Older children (13 years) were more likely to allow exclusion than younger (7 and 10…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Age Differences, Childhood Attitudes, Children
Chinese and Canadian Children's Evaluations of Lying and Truth Telling: Similarities and Differences in the Context of Pro- and Antisocial Behaviors.
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Lee, Kang; Cameron, Catherine Ann; Xu, Fen; Fu, Genyao; Board, Julie – Child Development, 1997
Compared Chinese and Canadian 7-, 9-, and 11-year-olds' moral evaluations of lie- and truth-telling in stories involving pro- and antisocial behavior. Found that Chinese children rated truth-telling less positively and lie-telling more positively in prosocial settings than Canadians. Both rated truth-telling positively and lie-telling negatively…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Antisocial Behavior, Children, Comparative Analysis