Children’s social and moral reasoning about exclusion
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Developmental research on social and moral reasoning about exclusion has utilized a social-domain theory, in contrast to a global stage theory, to investigate children's evaluations of gender- and race-based peer exclusion. The social-domain model postulates that moral, social-conventional, and personal reasoning coexist in children's evaluations of inclusion and exclusion, and that the priority given to these forms of judgments varies by the age of the child, the context, and the target of exclusion. Findings from developmental intergroup research studies disconfirm a general-stage-model approach to morality in the child, and provide empirical data on the developmental origins and emergence of intergroup attitudes regarding prejudice, bias, and exclusion.
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The measure identified by Smetana (2006) for assessing moral judgment, in which children provide social reasons for what makes an act wrong from a moral viewpoint, has extensive empirical validation and cross-cultural generalizability.
“This measure, which has served as a prototypic moral judgment assessment given its extensive empirical validation (Helwig, 1990; Killen, 2007; Nucci, 2001; Smetana, 2006; Turiel, 1998, 2008), derives from social domain theory (Turiel, 2006), and has been replicated in many countries, with cross-cultural generalizability”
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- Authors
- Killen, M.
- Affiliations
- University of Maryland, College Park (US)
- Corresponding author
- Killen, Melanie
- ORCID
- Killen, Melanie
- Venue
- Current Directions in Psychological Science
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2007-02
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 32-36
- ISSN
- 0963-7214 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-8721
- OpenAlex
- W2068165881
- Cited by
- 163
- References
- 28
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 24.76
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Current Directions in Psychological Science (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Keywords
- social exclusion, moral reasoning, social reasoning, children, social domain theory, gender exclusion, peer exclusion, prejudice, bias, intergroup attitudes, moral development
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