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Moral Judgment in Middle and Late Adulthood: The Effects of Age-Appropriate Moral Dilemmas and Spontaneous Role Taking.
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Chap, Janet Blum – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1986
Dilemma content had a significant effect on moral judgement, with a tendency for each age group to use a higher level of judgment when the situation described was age-appropriate. Results indicated a significant age difference on a measure of spontaneous role taking: old persons made more definitive moral judgments than the younger adults.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Decision Making, Middle Aged Adults, Moral Values
Developmental Relations among Children's Perspective Taking, Moral Judgment, and Parent-Rated Behaviors.
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Kurdek, Lawrence A. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1980
Assesses children's ability to coordinate information in the context of perspective taking and moral judgment tasks and tests the assumption that both perspective taking and moral judgment involve a common decentering process. Subjects were first and third graders. (MP)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Rating Scales, Cognitive Processes, Decision Making
Children's Moral Judgments: The Relationship between Intentionality, Social Egocentrism, and Development.
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DeRemer, Paula A.; Gruen, Gerald E. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1979
Eighty-three children from grades 2 through 5 were administered measures of social egocentrism and moral judgment. Methodological improvements in the moral judgment measure were introduced. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Decision Making, Egocentrism