Conscience in the classroom: Early adolescents' moral emotions, moral judgments, and moral identity as predictors of their interpersonal behaviour

The Development and Structure of Conscience

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 327-341

  Olthof, Tjeert ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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