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Eisenberg-Berg, Nancy; Hand, Michael – Child Development, 1979
Examines the relationship between 35 preschoolers' moral reasoning about altruistic moral conflicts and their sharing, helping, and comforting in a naturalistic environment. (JMB)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Altruism, Moral Development, Preschool Children
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Keller, Barbara Bledsoe; Bell, Richard Q. – Child Development, 1979
Results showed that experimentally produced variations in the person orientation of three nine-year-old female confederates affected the socialization techniques employed by 24 female college students who were attempting to elicit altruistic behavior from the children. (JMB)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adults, Altruism, Children
Beringer, Almut – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2007
Is it feasible and appropriate to develop a sustainability metrics which captures cosmological-spiritual dimensions of un/sustainability? Departing from the supposition that the crisis of unsustainability is a crisis of worldview and misguided cosmology which needs redirection on a cultural and global scale, this essay introduces the notion of a…
Descriptors: Measurement, Case Studies, Value Judgment, Sustainable Development
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Eisenberg, Nancy; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1991
Examined prosocial moral reasoning in children during an 11-year period. Found that (1) hedonistically oriented reasoning declined until adolescence; (2) reasoning based on others' needs increased until early adolescence and then declined; and (3) girls' overall reasoning was higher than boys'. Found some association of prosocial reasoning with…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adolescents, Altruism, Children
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Lamborn, Susie D. – Developmental Psychology, 1994
A 10-step scale for assessing development of understanding relationships between honesty and kindness was developed and administered to 113 youths. Results indicated that development moved through 3 stages, as youths age 9-12 demonstrated abstract concepts of honesty and kindness; age 13-15 demonstrated simple abstract relations; and age 16-20…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Altruism, Children
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Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2016
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2016, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 30 of April to 2 of May, 2016. Psychology, nowadays, offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and groups (mental functions and…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology