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Moral development across cultures: from judgment to behavior

Thu, April 8, 1:10 to 2:40pm EDT (1:10 to 2:40pm EDT), Virtual

Session Type: Paper Symposium

Abstract

Moral judgments and behaviors can vary dramatically across cultures, yet we know relatively little about the scope and sources of this variation in development. In this symposium, we bring together four talks focused on the ontogeny of morality in early childhood and its manifestation in judgments and behavior. In collaboration with more than a dozen societies across five continents, the research highlighted here spans several key areas of moral development. Specifically, the first two talks examine the emergence of prosociality in children—how they reason about prosocial obligations (Talk #1) and whether children actually cooperate with others in the context of social dilemmas (Talk #2). The second two talks build on this work by looking at the development of punitive behavior in childhood (Talk #3) and children’s sophisticated sense of fairness and trustworthiness (Talk #4), further exploring how features of the socioecological environment — such as cultural norms and industrialization — may be shaping the development of these early behaviors. Together, the studies provide foundational insight into culture’s vital role in shaping children’s emerging multifaceted moral sense.

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