Are children moral objectivists? Children's judgments about moral and response-dependent properties

Cognition

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Nichols, Shaun ^a   Folds Bennett, Trisha ^a  

^a School of Business   (United States)

Author keywords

Moral judgment; Moral objectivism; Moral conventional distinction; Response dependent properties

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

MORAL DOMAIN;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MORALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0242384708     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(03)00160-4     Document Type: Article

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