Age-related changes in cognitive processing of moral and social conventional violations

Cognitive Development

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 181-194

  Lahat, Ayelet ^a   Helwig, Charles C ^b   Zelazo, Philip David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Executive function; Moral judgments; Reaction time; Social conventions; Social domains

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861705645     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2012.02.002     Document Type: Article

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