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Feng, Feng I. – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2013
This study is based on Jones's ("Academy of Management Review" 1(2):366-395, 1991) theoretic model and explores the relationship between perceived moral intensity and the first three stages (moral recognition, judgment, and intention) of the ethical decision-making process for school principals. A survey consisting of four scenarios was…
Descriptors: Principals, Moral Values, Administrator Surveys, Ethics
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Brooks, Jeff; Bock, Tonia; Narvaez, Darcia – Journal of Research in Character Education, 2013
The link between judgment and action is weak throughout psychology, including moral psychology. That is, people often do not act in accordance with their reasoning. Might moral judgment development be better viewed as a capacity that inhibits "immoral" behavior? One model that helps account for the moral judgment-action gap is Rest's…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Value Judgment, Antisocial Behavior, Motivation
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Unkelbach, Christian – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2007
Repeated statements receive higher truth ratings than new statements. Given that repetition leads to greater experienced processing fluency, the author proposes that fluency is used in truth judgments according to its ecological validity. Thus, the truth effect occurs because people learn that fluency and truth tend to be positively correlated.…
Descriptors: Correlation, Ethics, Value Judgment, Evaluative Thinking
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Krettenauer, Tobias – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2004
The present study investigates whether epistemic cognition in moral domain (dubbed "metaethical cognition") develops analogously to epistemic reasoning regarding empirical knowledge. The study's conceptual framework distinguishes two main areas of metaethical cognition (beliefs about the nature of moral judgments and conceptions of the process of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Value Judgment, Moral Development, Ethics
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Krettenauer, Tobias; Eichler, Dana – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2006
The study investigates adolescents' self-attributed moral emotions following a moral transgression by expanding research with children on the happy-victimizer phenomenon. In a sample of 200 German adolescents from Grades 7, 9, 11, and 13 (M=16.18 years, SD=2.41), participants were confronted with various scenarios describing different moral rule…
Descriptors: Social Desirability, Adolescents, Value Judgment, Moral Development
Carroll, James A. – 1977
The Defining Issues Test (DIT) has been subjected to construct validation in a number of studies relating it to the development of moral judgment and to measures of cognitive development and political attitudes. The DIT has been found to have significant positive correlations with the Comprehension of Social-Moral Concepts Test for a variety of…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Cognitive Development, Comparative Testing, Comprehension
Benjamin, Ludy T., Jr., Ed. – APA Books, 2008
The most popular activities from APA's successful "Activities Handbooks for the Teaching of Psychology" are gathered together and updated in this book of teachers' favorites. The lesson plans, which encourage active learning and involve the whole class, have stood the test of time and proven themselves to be entertaining, effective, and easy to…
Descriptors: Psychology, Teaching Methods, Learning Activities, Lesson Plans