Revisiting moral attachment: Comment on identity and motivation

Human Development

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 262-266

  Reimer, Kevin ^a  

^a AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attachment; Identity; Moral reasoning; Working models

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; EDUCATION; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; HUMAN; IDENTITY; INTELLIGENCE; MORALITY; MOTIVATION; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ASPECT;

EID: 24944460303     PISSN: 0018716X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000086861     Document Type: Note

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