Choosing biases, using power and practicing resistance: Moral development in a world without certainty

Human Development

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 135-156

  Walker, Janet S ^a  

^a Res and Train Ctr on Fam Support   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; Gender; Moral development; Narrative; Power

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041993606     PISSN: 0018716X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000022669     Document Type: Article

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