Biases in Children's and Adults' Moral Judgments

Autor/inn/en	Powell, Nina L.; Derbyshire, Stuart W. G.; Guttentag, Robert E.
Titel	Biases in Children's and Adults' Moral Judgments
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 113 (2012) 1, S.186-193 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0965
DOI	10.1016/j.jecp.2012.03.006
Schlagwörter	Value Judgment; Cognitive Ability; Moral Development; Moral Values; Children; Adults; Victims; Age Differences; Intuition; Theories + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Werturteil; Denkfähigkeit; Moralische Entwicklung; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Child; Kind; Kinder; Victim; Opfer; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Theory; Theorie
Abstract	Two experiments examined biases in children's (5/6- and 7/8-year-olds) and adults' moral judgments. Participants at all ages judged that it was worse to produce harm when harm occurred (a) through action rather than inaction (omission bias), (b) when physical contact with the victim was involved (physical contact principle), and (c) when the harm was produced as a direct means to an end rather than as an unintended but foreseeable side effect of the action (intention principle). The youngest participants, however, did not incorporate benefit when making judgments about situations in which harm to one individual resulted in benefit to five individuals. Older participants showed some preference for benefit resulting from action (commission) as opposed to inaction (omission). The findings are discussed in the context of the theory that moral judgments result, in part, from the operation of an inherent, intuitive moral faculty compared with the theory that moral judgments require development of necessary cognitive abilities. (Contains 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10