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INTELLECTUAL AND MORAL DEVELOPMENT IN ADOLESCENCE
Author(s) -
LANGFORD P. E.,
GEORGE SANDRA
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1975.tb02974.x
Subject(s) - lawrence kohlberg's stages of moral development , psychology , moral development , moral reasoning , dilemma , moral dilemma , moral psychology , intellectual development , precondition , social psychology , developmental psychology , epistemology , philosophy , computer science , programming language
S ummary . 65 girls between 12 and 15 years of age were presented with four of Kohlberg's ‘moral dilemma’ stories and Inhelder and Piaget's ‘floating bodies' problem. The relation between level of moral judgment and formal operations was found to change from negative in Kohlberg's earlier stages to positive for the later stages of moral judgment. It was concluded that reasoning at the stage of formal operations is a precondition for progress to Kohlberg's Types 5 and 6 in moral judgment.