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Laupa, Marta; Tse, Pamela – Social Development, 2005
We examined the reasoning of children and adolescents in the island of Macao regarding the bases of legitimate authority across social contexts. We asked 101 children in 3rd, 5th, and 7th grades to evaluate the authority of persons issuing commands to children in two events. In one, persons with varying combinations of authority attributes issue a…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Children, Social Environment