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 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 ...

Daniel A. Yudkin and colleagues analyzed a rich dataset of real moral conundrums, the "AITA?" board on the social media site Reddit. Posters to the board describe their own behavior in context ...

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