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Takagi, Yoko; Saltzstein, Herbert D. – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2015
Twenty-four parents, mothers or fathers, of 3-5 year old children in a pre-school nursery kept diaries of problematic encounters within the family. Two of these encounters were later presented as "pretend" stories to "that" child who made judgments of and emotionally reacted as if he/she were the story actor including giving…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Moral Values, Diaries, Preschool Children
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Hilliard, Lacey J.; Buckingham, Mary H.; Geldhof, G. John; Gansert, Patricia; Stack, Caroline; Gelgoot, Erin S.; Bers, Marina U.; Lerner, Richard M. – Applied Developmental Science, 2018
Video games have the potential to be contexts for moral learning. We investigated whether "Quandary," a video game designed to promote ethical thinking and moral considerations for decision-making, would help promote positive skills such as perspective taking and empathy in adolescents. We examined the effect of playing…
Descriptors: Perspective Taking, Decision Making, Educational Games, Video Games
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Gummerum, Michaela; Keller, Monika – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 2012
Few studies so far have investigated whether abrupt social changes in a society affect the development of friendship and moral reasoning. In this study, 2 cohorts of 188 East German children and adolescents (aged 7, 9, 12, and 15 years) were interviewed in 1990 and 2005. Participants were asked about the importance of close friendship (friendship…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Moral Development, Friendship, Foreign Countries