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Direct linkPellizzoni, Sandra; Siegal, Michael; Surian, Luca – Developmental Science, 2010
In three experiments involving 207 preschoolers and 28 adults, we investigated the extent to which young children base moral judgments of actions aimed to protect others on utilitarian principles. When asked to judge the rightness of intervening to hurt one person in order to save five others, the large majority of children aged 3 to 5 years…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Value Judgment, Victims of Crime, Moral Development
