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Direct linkPowell, Nina L.; Derbyshire, Stuart W. G.; Guttentag, Robert E. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2012
Two experiments examined biases in children's (5/6- and 7/8-year-olds) and adults' moral judgments. Participants at all ages judged that it was worse to produce harm when harm occurred (a) through action rather than inaction (omission bias), (b) when physical contact with the victim was involved (physical contact principle), and (c) when the harm…
Descriptors: Value Judgment, Cognitive Ability, Moral Development, Moral Values
Peer reviewedMoran, James D. III; McCullers, John C. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1984
Investigates the effects of recency and specific story content on the development of moral reasoning in four-, seven-, and 11- year-old children and college freshmen. Analyses confirmed that in general younger children judged on consequence, except on stories containing intentional injury to a person, whereas older children utilized intention.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Content Analysis, Context Clues
