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Gasser, Luciano; Malti, Tina; Gutzwiller-Helfenfinger, Eveline – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 2012
The authors investigated 7- and 9-year-old children's moral understanding of retaliation as compared to unprovoked aggression with regard to their aggressive behavior status. Based on peer ratings, 48 children were selected as overtly aggressive and 91 as nonaggressive. Their moral understanding of retaliation and unprovoked aggression was…
Descriptors: Aggression, Moral Values, Attribution Theory, Children
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Gutzwiller-Helfenfinger, Eveline; Gasser, Luciano; Malti, Tina – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2010
How children make meaning of their own social experiences in situations involving moral issues is central to their subsequent affective and cognitive moral learning. Our study of young children's narratives describing their interpersonal conflicts shows that the emotions and judgments constructed in the course of these real-life narratives differ…
Descriptors: Moral Issues, Moral Development, Social Development, Schemata (Cognition)