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1Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Human Development
|April 16, 2019
Summary
Children develop morality by learning about helping and harming others through social interactions. By age three, they can judge right from wrong based on welfare concerns, marking a key developmental milestone.
Area of Science:
- Developmental Psychology
- Moral Psychology
- Social Interaction
Background:
- Morality involves orientations toward harming and helping others.
- These orientations transform significantly during early childhood.
Purpose of the Study:
- Propose an interactionist and constructivist approach to early moral development.
- Explain how children construct moral orientations via social interactions.
Main Methods:
- Qualitative analysis of social interactions.
- Observational studies of child behavior.
- Developmental trajectory analysis.
Main Results:
- Children construct moral orientations through everyday social interactions.
- By age three, children develop the capacity for moral judgments based on welfare concerns.
Conclusions:
- Early moral development is an active, constructive process.
- Future research should focus on the infancy to childhood trajectory of moral development.
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