Given science’s role in everything from the development of the atomic bomb ... Meanwhile, Sam Harris, in his tautly reasoned book “The Moral Landscape,” made a strong case that there are ...

North American Psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg wrote that the moral growth of human beings has six stages, but nowadays only a small percentage of people achieve the highest stage. Taking Jean ...

This cleverly conceived and beautifully executed interactive video by Carlo Pisani, Andres Jud, and Maria Stalder offers a simplified version of the Heinz dilemma to test for moral development by ...

A new study from the University of Chicago suggests that parents’ sensitivity to both other people’s feelings and to injustice may influence early moral development in their children. Developmental ...

Ever since G. Stanley Hall’s 1892 description of infants learning to love because of the mother’s embrace, the field of moral development has been searching for the answer to one of humanity ...

This week I was at a convening on moral development hosted by the Making ... As David Yeager writes in his book “10 to 25,” when people are in their student years, their primary motivation ...

What impact might this have on young people’s development? One area that people are often concerned about is the effect of video games, particularly violent ones, on moral reasoning. My ...

As a teacher, father and children's book author, Jon Scieszka avoids books full of lessons. "Since the beginning of kids' books ... it was like: learn your alphabet, learn the colors, or learn ...

We discovered children included more targets in their moral circles as they aged. Their ability to extend concern to others improves with development, much like numeracy and literacy skills do.

Understanding moral development and moral reasoning in business ethics can help leaders make ethically defensible choices that benefit the greater good. The preconventional level of moral ...