Older and more moral? - Age-related changes in performance on Piagetian moral reasoning tasks

Age and Ageing

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 402-404

  McDonald, Lorraine ^a   Stuart Hamilton, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WORCESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MORALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSIBILITY; THEFT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORALS; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; SOCIAL VALUES;

EID: 0029849237     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/25.5.402     Document Type: Article

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