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Moral Judgment and Cheating: Evidence of a Knowledge-Behavior Link in Early Childhood
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Li Zhao; Weihao Yan; Junjie Peng; Paul L. Harris – Child Development, 2025
This research with two studies examined whether young children's moral judgments of honesty and dishonesty predict their actual cheating behavior. Participants were 200 children aged 3-6 years (2021-2022. Study 1: N = 80, M[subscript age] = 4.96, 40 girls; Study 2: N = 120, M[subscript age] = 4.98, 60 girls; all middle-class Han Chinese). Children…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Decision Making, Cheating, Young Children
Counterfactual Choices and Moral Judgments in Children
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Gautam, Shalini; Owen Hall, Ruby; Suddendorf, Thomas; Redshaw, Jonathan – Child Development, 2023
When making moral judgments of past actions, adults often think counterfactually about what could have been done differently. Considerable evidence suggests that counterfactual thinking emerges around age 6, but it remains unknown how this development influences children's moral judgments. Across two studies, Australian children aged 4-9 (N = 236,…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Moral Values, Developmental Stages, Child Development
To Give or Not to Give: Children's and Adolescents' Sharing and Moral Negotiations in Economic Decision Situations
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Gummerum, Michaela; Keller, Monika; Takezawa, Masanori; Mata, Jutta – Child Development, 2008
This study interconnects developmental psychology of fair and moral behavior with economic game theory. One hundred eighty-nine 9- to 17-year-old students shared a sum of money as individuals and groups with another anonymous group (dictator game). Individual allocations did not differ by age but did by gender and were predicted by participants'…
Descriptors: Game Theory, Economics, Developmental Psychology, Students
Beliefs about Truth and Beliefs about Rightness.
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Chandler, 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
Conceptions of Moral, Social-Conventional, and Personal Events among Chinese Preschoolers in Hong Kong.
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Yau, Jenny; Smetana, Judith G. – Child Development, 2003
Interviewed 4- and 6-year-old Hong Kong preschoolers about familiar moral, social-conventional, and personal events. Found that children judged children as deciding personal issues, based on personal choice justifications, and judged parents as deciding moral and conventional issues. With age, children granted increased decisionmaking power to the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Childhood Attitudes, Cross Sectional Studies, Decision Making
Chinese Adolescents' Reasoning about Democratic and Authority-Based Decision Making in Peer, Family, and School Contexts.
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Helwig, Charles C.; Arnold, Mary Louise; Tan, Dingliang; Boyd, Dwight – Child Development, 2003
This study explored judgments and reasoning of Chinese 13- to 18-year-olds regarding making decisions involving children in peer, family, and school contexts. Findings indicated that judgments and reasoning about decision-making varied by social context and by the decision under consideration. Evaluations of procedures became more differentiated…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Child Relationship, Age Differences, Childrens Rights