In the Spring of 2006 Samford University's School of Business made a decision to participate in The Wall Street Journal's Academic Partnership (AP) program beginning with the Fall semester of 2006. This paper examines School of Business student and faculty attitudes and usage of the WSJ that made for a successful implementation this past year.…

From the standpoint of a journal editor and researcher, this commentary critically reflects on some of the primary notions addressed in the 4 featured articles of the special section, discussing areas of agreement and divergence. As a way of further exploring these ethical and professional concerns, the contentious issue of using school children…

To determine when, if ever, deceptive acts can be morally justified in investigative reporting, it is important to distinguish a deceptive act that is morally justified from an act that is not deceptive in the first place. This paper seeks to provide an account of what counts as deception and identify the kinds of journalistic practice that are…

To examine the impact of ethical ideology, i.e., situationism (high relativism and idealism), subjectivism (high relativism/low idealism), absolutism (low relativism/high idealism), and exceptionism (low relativism and idealism), as well as the saliency of moral norms, and the situational consequences on moral behavior, 112 male and female college…

Since Kohlberg (1958) first extended the cognitive developmental theory of moral judgment to include moral reasoning in adults, it has been found that women tended to score at a lower developmental stage than did men. Gilligan (1982) has conceptualized women's moral reasoning as being different in kind from men's moral reasoning, with women's…

The nature of the developmental shift from adolescence to adulthood has been of ongoing interest to researchers studying the development of socio-moral cognition from within the "cognitive-developmental" paradigm. This paper identifies three dimensions along which developmental changes in socio-moral cognition occur during late…

Author, who is a philosopher, describes how he came to collaborate with psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg and discusses how Kohlberg's theorizing framed problems at the interface between the disciplines of psychology and philosophy. Explains how Kohlberg influenced the author's professional work. (Author/NB)

Author describes his first encounters with psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg and explains how Kohlberg's approach has been blended with other approaches in the development of the author's work on the moral education of children. (Author)

Two studies, involving elementary school children, investigated children's representation of adults' use of the moral intentionality principle, with particular emphasis on the distinction between causal attributions of events-to-the-situation vs. events-to-the-person. (JS)

Argues that critics are caught in the dialectical tension between "technology" and "art" in television research. Examines how this dialectic informs and constrains examination of television. Presents "rhetorical aesthetics" to support the claim that critics should draw inferences from practical consideration of…

The similarity between rules used by mothers and those used by sons was extensive. Results suggest that research should emphasize the process by which children come to employ multidimensional rules and the role of parental models in this process. Current research in moral judgments largely ignores the rule-governed nature of children's judgments.…

In an earlier article in this journal (v9 1980), Rich argued that the emotions should have a more central place in moral education. David W. Gosling (Journal of Moral Education; v13 1984) claimed that these arguments cannot be sustained. Rich responds to Gosling's critique. (Author/RM)

Organized assessment procedures are used as preface to therapy to help in transmittal of information structuring of relationships, and information gathering. The results can be a mix of descriptive information and value judgment, confusing tester values with facts about those tested. Caution in use of such procedures is suggested. (Author/NRB)

INDSCAL analysis, based on bipolar ratings of physically agressive incidents by 217 subjects, yielded a solution in three dimensions: Provocation by Target, Intimates vs. Strangers and Harmful Outcome. One bipolar scale, the Right-Wrong Scale, was used as a direct measure of subjects' moral evaluation of each incident. (Author/LMO)

Presents results of a study which compared the moral evaluations of a sample of current undergraduates with evaluations given by college students in 1929, 1939, 1949, and 1958. The intensity of disapproval for most of the behaviors examined showed little change from 1929 to the present; disapproval for some behaviors peaked in 1958. (KH)