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Moral development is an aspect of developmental psychology and concerns the growth of morality in children.

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[edit] Psychoanalystic perspective


[edit] Kohlberg's stages of moral development



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  • Kagan, J and Lamb,S (1990)The Emergence of Morality in Young Children. University of Chicago Press ISBN 0226422321
  • Killen, M., & Smetana, J. G. (2006). Handbook of moral development. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers.

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  • Smetana, J.O. (1981) Preschool children's conception of moral and social rules, Child Development 52: 1333-6.
  • Smetana, J.G. (1984) Toddlers' social interactions regarding moral and conventional transgressions, Child Development 55: 1767-76.
  • Smetana, J.G., Kelly, M. and Twentyman, C.T. (1984) Abused, neglected and nonmaltreated children's conceptions of moral and socio-conventional transgressions, Child Development 55: 277-87.

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