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Direct linkSokol, Bryan W.; Chandler, Michael J.; Jones, Christopher – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2004
The authors criticize the central place of belief-desire psychology in the theories-of-mind enterprise. They detail the merits of adopting a more agentive framework for conceptualizing human action and demonstrate how children's growing understanding of epistemic agency relates to advances in moral reasoning. (Contains 4 tables and 2 figures.)
Descriptors: Moral Development, Decision Making, Moral Values, Children
Peer reviewedChandler, Michael J.; Sokol, Bryan W.; Wainryb, Cecilia – Child Development, 2000
Makes a case for rereading the fact-value dichotomy that currently divides the contemporaneous literatures dealing with children's moral reasoning development and their evolving theories of mind. Presents findings from two research programs, in which children's beliefs about truth and rightness are combined, to illustrate the natural…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Child Development, Childhood Attitudes, Children
