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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
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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