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An Event-Related Potential Study of Adolescents' and Young Adults' Judgments of Moral and Social Conventional Violations
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Lahat, Ayelet; Helwig, Charles C.; Zelazo, Philip David – Child Development, 2013
The neurocognitive development of moral and conventional judgments was examined. Event-related potentials were recorded while 24 adolescents (13 years) and 30 young adults (20 years) read scenarios with 1 of 3 endings: moral violations, conventional violations, or neutral acts. Participants judged whether the act was acceptable or unacceptable…
Descriptors: Value Judgment, Moral Values, Brain, Cognitive Measurement
Children's Judgments of Flags and Flag-Burning.
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Helwig, Charles C.; Prencipe, Angela – Child Development, 1999
Examined 6-, 8-, and 10-year olds' conceptions of flags as social conventions and their understandings of the symbolic and psychological consequences associated with transgressions toward flags. Found that despite age-related increases in understanding of flags as meaningful collective symbols, children at all ages considered transgressions to be…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Childhood Attitudes, Children, Cognitive Development
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
Children's Categorization and Evaluation of Different Types of Lies and Truths.
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Bussey, Kay – Child Development, 1999
Investigated 4-, 8-, and 11-year-olds' ability to categorize intentionally false and true statements as lies and truths. Found that older children were more likely to categorize false statements as lies and true statements as truths than were 4-year-olds. Antisocial lies were rated as most serious, and "white lies" as least serious.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Classification, Cognitive Development
The Development of Reasoning about the Teaching of Values in School and Family Contexts.
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Prencipe, Angela; Helwig, Charles C. – Child Development, 2002
Investigated development of reasoning about the teaching of values in school and family contexts among 8-, 10-, and 13-year olds and college students. Found that children and young adults' reasoning is multifaceted and distinguishes between moral values that reflect justice, rights, and moral character traits and other forms of desirable…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development
The Effects of Group Stereotypes on Adolescents' Reasoning about Peer Retribution.
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Pitner, Ronald O.; Astor, Ron Avi; Benbenishty, Rami; Haj-Yahia, Muhammad M.; Zeira, Anat – Child Development, 2003
Examined effects of negative group stereotypes on reasoning about peer retribution (child hits another child in response to name calling) among 2,604 Arab and Jewish adolescents in Israel. Found evidence that Arab and Jewish students hold stereotypes about one another and that in-group bias affected approval and reasoning about peer retribution…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Age Differences, Aggression