How do kids develop a sense of right and wrong? Have you ever wondered why some people stand up for what's right while others struggle to make good choices? Psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg had the same ...

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 Piaget’s ...

Human Development, Vol. 23, No. 2 (1980), pp. 77-104 (28 pages) This article provides an alternative conception of postconventional moral development which fits existing data on late adolescent and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article attempts a critical analysis of Kohlberg's stage theory of moral development in the context of an ideology critique. From this ...

Source: Artwork by Alexi Berry. Used with permission. Almost two years ago I wrote about cheating and deception (Incentivizing Lying). It was not well-received (less than a thousand reads to date).

Individuals who have a high level of moral reasoning show increased activity in the brain's frontostriatal reward system, both during periods of rest and while performing a sequential risk taking and ...

Introduction: The requirements of professionalism and the expected qualities of medical staff, including high moral character, motivate institutions to care about the ethical development of students ...

Lawrence Kohlberg's theory on the development of morality has been widely influential in psychology, feminist studies and even in business ethics. Kohlberg's theories can help business owners and ...

Kohlberg's stages of moral development were conceived by Lawrence Kohlberg to explain the development of moral reasoning. This theory holds that moral reasoning, which is the basis for ethical ...