Moral reasoning does not equal moral behavior: Kohlberg's theory is concerned with moral thinking, but there is a big difference between *knowing* what we ought to do versus our actual actions.

Kohlberg expanded considerably on this groundwork, determining that the process of moral development was principally concerned with justice and that its development continued throughout the ...

Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development in Business. Lawrence Kohlberg's theory on the development of morality has been widely influential in psychology, feminist studies and even in business ethics.

Let us see then the stages of moral perception formulated by Kohlberg. 1) In the first stage – lowest and most basic – “right action is that action which is not punished”.

Lawrence Kohlberg, who pioneered research on moral reasoning in the middle of the twentieth century, distinguished between conventional and post-conventional thinking in adults.

Individuals with a higher level of moral reasoning skills showed increased gray matter in the areas of the brain implicated in complex social behavior, decision making, and conflict processing as ...

Kohlberg put almost no emphasis on an individual’s age and focused on their needs and motives. His famous research focused on the responses that individuals gave on a series of moral dilemmas.

Philosophers from Aristotle and Jean-Jacques Rousseau to psychologists such as Jean Piaget and Lawrence Kohlberg have described how moral education starts with the young. Research has shown how ...

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 ...

Kohlberg's theory of moral development consists of three levels, each one made up of two stages. At the lowest, the ...