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Development of Moral Reasoning in Situational and Cultural Contexts
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Lo, Jesse Ho-Yin; Fu, Genyue; Lee, Kang; Cameron, Catherine Ann – Journal of Moral Education, 2020
This article examines relationships between children and youths' judgments and their justifications of truth telling and verbal deception, in situational and cultural contexts. Han Chinese, Euro-Canadians and Chinese-Canadians, seven- to 17-years of age were presented competitive scenarios in which protagonists told either lies to protect, or…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Cultural Context, Ethics, Sociocultural Patterns
Development of Children's Moral Evaluations of Modesty and Self-Promotion in Diverse Cultural Settings
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Cameron, Catherine Ann; Lau, Cindy; Fu, Genyue; Lee, Kang – Journal of Moral Education, 2012
This cross-cultural study of the moral judgements of Mainland Han-Chinese, Chinese-Canadian, and Euro-Canadian children aged seven to 11 examined the evaluations of narrative protagonists' modest lies and self-promoting truthful statements in situations where they had done a good deed. The story characters had thus either lied or told the truth…
Descriptors: Children, Cultural Differences, Cross Cultural Studies, Moral Values