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Song, Myung-Ja; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1987
Study examined whether 50 Korean children made conceptual distinctions between morality and social convention. Findings indicated that, at all ages, children treated moral transgressions as more generally wrong and independent of rules than conventional transgressions. (Author/RWB)
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences, Cultural Interrelationships, Elementary School Students