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Peer reviewedTisak, Marie S. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1993
Three studies examined preschoolers' judgments of moral and personal rules. Children were interviewed about punishment, the relative importance of various rule violations, and authority. Children reported that moral transgressions were more wrong than personal rule violations and that moral rule violators deserved greater punishment than did…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Moral Values, Preschool Children, Punishment
Peer reviewedTisak, Marie S. – Child Development, 1986
Examines children's conceptions of parental authority. A total of 120 children were interviewed and asked to evaluate social events (stealing, family chores, friendship choice) pertaining to restraint of behavior and maintenance of parental rule systems. Results suggest that children's notions of authority are heterogeneous with respect to the…
Descriptors: Children, Concept Formation, Moral Values, Parent Influence
Peer reviewedCrane, Dushka A.; Tisak, Marie S. – Early Education and Development, 1995
Examined whether amount of experience in day care affects children's ability to distinguish moral rules from conventional school-based and home-based rules. Preschoolers were questioned about legitimacy of authority of abolishing a rule and their rating of behaviors permitted and prohibited by an authority. Results revealed that previous day-care…
Descriptors: Day Care Effects, Early Experience, Moral Development, Moral Values
Peer reviewedBrinker, Shannon R.; Goldstein, Sara E.; Tisak, Marie S. – Educational Research, 2003
Third and fifth graders (n=45) were asked about teacher-executed punishments for moral infractions (e.g., stealing) and conventional misbehavior (e.g., gumchewing). Children perceived presentation with unpleasant stimuli as more frequent and effective than removal of privileges. Removal punishments were perceived as more effective for moral…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Childhood Attitudes, Classroom Techniques, Discipline
Peer reviewedTisak, Marie S.; Turiel, Elliot – Developmental Psychology, 1988
Students in grades 1, 2, and 5 ranked moral transgressions as more wrong than conventional transgressions and rated moral rules as more important than conventional rules. The distinction between morality and convention on criterion judgments was made more comprehensively by older than younger children. Justifications differed by domains at all…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Ability, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedTisak, Marie S.; Crane-Ross, Dushka; Tisak, John; Maynard, Amanda M. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 2000
Examined preschoolers', first-graders', and third-graders' responses to questions in which one authority (mother or teacher) permitted a moral or conventional act to occur across contexts and the other authority prohibited the act from occurring across contexts. Found that children's evaluations were a function of the authorities' status, the…
Descriptors: Adult Child Relationship, Age Differences, Childhood Attitudes, Comparative Analysis
