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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
The Homogeneity and Heterogeneity of Moral Functioning in Preschool
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Tan, Enda; Mikami, Amori Y.; Luzhanska, Anastasiya; Hamlin, J. Kiley – Child Development, 2021
The current study examined relations between distinct aspects of moral functioning, and their cognitive and emotional correlates, in preschool age children. Participants were 171 typically developing 3- to 6-year-olds. Each child completed several tasks, including (a) moral tasks assessing both performance of various moral actions and evaluations…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Cognitive Processes, Emotional Response, Preschool Children
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
Sex Differences in the Development of Moral Reasoning: A Rejoinder to Baumrind.
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Walker, Lawrence J. – Child Development, 1986
Addresses the criticisms of Diana Baumrind's review of his research on sex differences in moral reasoning development. Discusses issues such as the nature of moral development, the focus on adulthood, the choice of statistics, the effect of differing sample sizes and scoring systems, and the role of sexual experiences in explaining variability in…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Psychology
The Relation of Role Taking to the Development of Moral Judgment in Children
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Selman, Robert L. – Child Development, 1971
Reports two studies whose purpose was to explore the relationship in middle childhood of the child's ability to take the role of another and his ability to make qualitatively higher-level moral judgments. (WY)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Identification (Psychology), Interpersonal Relationship, Moral Values
Returning to Roots: On Social Information Processing and Moral Development
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Dodge, Kenneth A.; Rabiner, David L. – Child Development, 2004
Social information processing theory has been posited as a description of how mental operations affect behavioral responding in social situations. Arsenio and Lemerise (this issue) proposed that consideration of concepts and methods from moral domain models could enhance this description. This paper agrees with their proposition, although it…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Moral Development, Moral Values, Information Processing
Judgments of Intentionality in Response to Videotaped and Verbally Presented Moral Dilemmas: The Medium Is the Message
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Chandler, Michael J.; And Others – Child Development, 1973
These results suggest that previously published findings indicating that young children are unresponsive to issues of intentionality are methodological artifacts of the verbal assessment procedures employed. (Authors)
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Cognitive Processes, Grade 1, Moral Development
The Influence of Reasoning on Behavioral Choices at Different Stages of Moral Development
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Turiel, Elliot; Rothman, Golda R. – Child Development, 1972
Findings of this experiment demonstrate the interdependence of reasoning and action in the development of morality. (Authors)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Processes, Ethics