The Reasons Young Children Give to Peers When Explaining Their Judgments of Moral and Conventional Rules

Autor/inn/en	Mammen, Maria; Köymen, Bahar; Tomasello, Michael
Titel	The Reasons Young Children Give to Peers When Explaining Their Judgments of Moral and Conventional Rules
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 54 (2018) 2, S.254-262 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/dev0000424
Schlagwörter	Moral Values; Young Children; Peer Relationship; Social Attitudes; Age Differences; Punishment; Standards; Interaction; Foreign Countries; Nursery Schools; Participative Decision Making; Observation; Coding; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Frühe Kindheit; Peer-Beziehungen; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Bestrafung; Standard; Interaktion; Ausland; Nursery school; Kindertagesstätte; Kindergarten; Vorschule; Beobachtung; Codierung; Programmierung; Deutschland
Abstract	Moral justifications work, when they do, by invoking values that are shared in the common ground of the interlocutors. We asked 3- and 5-year-old peer dyads (N = 144) to identify and punish norm transgressors. In the moral condition, the transgressor violated a moral norm (e.g., by stealing); in the social rules condition, she/he violated a context-specific rule (e.g., by placing a yellow toy in a green box, instead of a yellow box). Children in both age groups justified their punishment in the social rules condition mostly by referring to the rule (e.g., "He must put yellow toys in the yellow box"). In contrast, in the moral condition they mostly justified their punishment by simply referring to the observed fact (e.g., "He stole"), seeing no need to state the norm involved (e.g., "He must not steal"), presumably because they assumed this as part of their moral common ground with their partner. These results suggest that preschoolers assume certain common ground moral values with their peers and use these in formulating explicit moral judgments and justifications. (As Provided).
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