Human Development, Vol. 32, No. 5 (September-October 1989), pp. 300-315 (16 pages) The ongoing debate about how to describe and explain late adolescent moral development is highlighted most clearly in ...

Kohlberg defines three stages: preconventional, conventional, and post-conventional moral reasoning. Preconventional Moral Reasoning occurs when the rewards or consequences determine the behavior.

Lawrence Kohlberg first published details of his research on the development of moral judgments in Vita Humana (later titled Human Development). Along with a series of other articles and essays, he ...

The psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg also put forth a stage theory of moral development. Kohlberg presented children with moral dilemmas to determine how children think about right and wrong.

In Article Audio PlayerProminent historians and philosophers have argued for centuries about the core moral nature of human beings, from Aristotle’s virtue ethics to Immanuel Kant’s duty-based ...

Moral panics aimed against trans people are both attacks on that community and part of a broader strategy to control youth across the U.S.