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Julia C. Torquati; Donger Liu; Hyerim Shin – Environmental Education Research, 2025
We investigated direct experiences with nature and socialization as predictors of preschool-aged children's environmental moral reasoning. Children (n = 146; 52.7% male) from three U.S. states completed biophilia and environmental moral reasoning interviews. Parents (n=98) completed surveys about their children's activities in natural areas and…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Moral Values, Predictor Variables, Natural Resources
Ochoa, Karlena D.; Rodini, Joseph F.; Moses, Louis J. – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Although the influence of intent understanding on children's moral development has been long studied, little research has examined the influence of belief understanding on that development. In two studies we presented children with morally relevant belief vignettes to examine the extent to which they incorporate both intent and belief information…
Descriptors: Moral Development, Social Cognition, Theory of Mind, Moral Values
Gutzwiller-Helfenfinger, Eveline; Latzko, Brigitte – Frontline Learning Research, 2020
This study contributes to a developmental approach focusing on emotions as being of key significance in explaining the Happy Victimizer pattern (HV pattern) among adults. Based on findings from our own research on moral emotions within the Happy Victimizer paradigm, we claim that a purely cognitive approach to explain the HV is overly narrow.…
Descriptors: Victims, Adults, Moral Values, Moral Development
Al-Disi, Nisreen M.; Rawadieh, Saleh Moh'd – International Education Studies, 2019
This study aimed at identifying moral judgment for education profession ethics among pre-service teachers programs of the School of Educational Sciences at the University of Jordan. Accordingly, the researchers developed a Moral Judgment Scale based on Kohlberg (1984), and on the Adult Moral Judgment Scale localized by Abdul-Fattah (2001). The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Moral Values, Preservice Teachers, Value Judgment
Heinrichs, Karin; Gutzwiller-Helfenfinger, Eveline; Latzko, Brigitte; Minnameier, Gerhard; Döring, Bettina – Frontline Learning Research, 2020
Research on the Happy Victimizer Phenomenon has mainly focused on preschool and schoolchildren, with a few studies also including adolescents and young adults. The main finding is that young children, despite knowing that harming someone is wrong, ascribe positive feelings to perpetrators and offer hedonistic justifications, interpreted as a lack…
Descriptors: Victims, Adolescents, Adults, Moral Values
Li, Pearl Han; Harris, Paul L.; Koenig, Melissa A. – Developmental Psychology, 2019
What does it take know a moral truth or principle? Although testimony is an undisputed source of empirical knowledge of contingent facts, it is less clear whether it is possible to acquire "second-hand moral knowledge" (Jones, 1999; Wolff, 1998). In the present studies, 3- to 5-year-old Chinese (N = 124) and U.S. American (N = 90)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Cultural Differences, Decision Making
Farooq, Umar; Farooq, R. A.; Tabassum, Rabia; Khan, Shafqat Ali – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Sciences, 2018
The study was designed to investigate the moral reasoning stages of secondary school head teachers of Pakistan. Objectives of the study were (1) to investigate the stages of moral reasoning among secondary school head teachers in the light of Kohlberg's theory of moral development, (2) to find out the differences in moral reasoning of secondary…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Administrator Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers
Scholes, Laura; Lunn Brownlee, Jo; Walker, Susan; Johansson, Eva; Lawson, Veronica; Mascadri, Julia – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2017
As classrooms continue to diversify, there is an increasing need to understand children's inclusive behaviours and moral reasoning. Research shows that epistemic beliefs (beliefs about knowing and knowledge) can influence reasoning for adults, but we know little about this relationship in younger children or how classroom contexts relate to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Early Childhood Education, Elementary School Students
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
Westphal, Kenneth R. – Theory and Research in Education, 2012
Moral particularism, defined as the view that moral judgment does not require moral principles, has become prominent both in moral philosophy and in philosophy of education. This article re-examines Nussbaum's case for particularism, based on Sophocles' "Antigone", because her stress on sensitive appreciation of circumstantial specifics is…
Descriptors: Philosophy, Value Judgment, Liberal Arts, Moral Development
Cushman, Fiery; Sheketoff, Rachel; Wharton, Sophie; Carey, Susan – Cognition, 2013
Between the ages of 4 and 8 children increasingly make moral judgments on the basis of an actor's intent, as opposed to the outcome that the actor brings about. Does this reflect a reorganization of concepts in the moral domain, or simply the development of capacities outside the moral domain such as theory of mind and executive function?…
Descriptors: Young Children, Moral Values, Value Judgment, Moral Development
Yilmaz, Ferat; Ersoy, Ali – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2016
Problem Statement: The ability to say no when faced with demands with possible moral consequences becomes a problem that must be addressed in terms of morality in all of its dimensions, including in terms of the concept of character. "Character" can be defined from different perspectives, and within the framework of moral anatomy. For…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Moral Development, Moral Values
Al-Shurai, Saad – Education, 2012
This study was conducted to investigate the moral development of one hundred Kuwaiti high school teachers. They ranged in age from 23 to 48 years with a mean of 28.6 years and a standard deviation of 8.3 years. The teachers' individual moral judgment levels were assessed by the Defining Issues Test (DIT)--an objective test designed by James Rest…
Descriptors: Value Judgment, Objective Tests, Moral Development, Secondary School Teachers
Powell, 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
Perren, Sonja; Gutzwiller-Helfenfinger, Eveline; Malti, Tina; Hymel, Shelley – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2012
This study investigated different facets of moral development in bullies, victims, and bully-victims among Swiss adolescents. Extending previous research, we focused on both bullying and victimization in relation to adolescents' morally disengaged and morally responsible reasoning as well as moral emotion attributions. A total of 516 adolescents…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Value Judgment, Bullying, Empathy