Influence of social factors in the development of the young child's moral judgment

Ruffy, Michèle

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Section: Reasoning and Judgmentmentioning

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“…V. Reasoning and Judgment Ruffy, M. (1981). Influence of social factors in the development of the young child's moral judgment.…”

Section: Stereotypesmentioning

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“…This fits with the fact that the development of moral reasoning was the most prominent topic in the earliest work in moral psychology. The first of the four papers selected for this section is by Ruffy (1981). In seven studies in the USA and Switzerland, Ruffy examined the influence of social factors on children's judgment of moral dilemmas developed originally by Piaget. In particular, Ruffy focused on the effect of school, by comparing the responses of younger children who had not yet attended school with those of kindergarten and first grade students.…”

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On the relevance of morality in social psychology: An introduction to a virtual special issue

Pagliaro

2012

Euro J Social Psych

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Recently, social psychology has become central in the study of morality. This turn to morality as a topic builds on social psychologists' long‐standing interest in issues closely related to morality, such as cooperation, empathy, fairness, social norms and deviance. The present paper introduces a (virtual) special issue on morality by highlighting some of the 41 articles on “moral” or “morality” that have appeared in the European Journal of Social Psychology from 1973 to the present. The nineteen highlighted papers are organized into the main topics covered in research on morality published in EJSP: Emotion, Impression Formation and Trait Inference, Norms and Deviance, Stereotypes, and Reasoning and Judgment. A description of the historical trends that characterized research on morality in EJSP is also provided. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Section: Reasoning and Judgmentmentioning

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“…V. Reasoning and Judgment Ruffy, M. (1981). Influence of social factors in the development of the young child's moral judgment.…”

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On the relevance of morality in social psychology: An introduction to a virtual special issue

Pagliaro

2012

Euro J Social Psych

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“…Research has shown that children in the preoperational stage of cognitive development follow heteronomous thinking, while concrete operational and formal operational children follow autonomous thinking (Nobes and Pawson 2003;Piaget 1970;Ruffy 1981). A characteristic of heteronomous thinking is rigidity of rules; that is, rules are fixed and cannot be changed.…”

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Marketing Healthful Eating to Children: The Effectiveness of Incentives, Pledges, and Competitions

Raju

Rajagopal

Gilbride

2010

Journal of Marketing

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This research examines how school administrators can motivate children to make more healthful food choices using incentives, pledges, and competitions as interventions. A six-month field study was conducted across 55 elementary and middle schools, and the authors analyzed the data using a two-level Bayesian hierarchical linear model. All three interventions increased the choice of fruits and vegetables (the proportion of children choosing additional servings increased 3 to 24 percentage points) ten weeks after the interventions ended. However, younger (Grades 1 and 2) and older (Grades 3-8) children responded differently to the interventions. Although both younger and older children responded more favorably to the competition intervention than to the pledge or incentive interventions, the effects of the competition and incentive interventions were more pronounced among the younger children. A second field study, also with schoolchildren, examined the role of pledge reminders on adherence to the pledge. The presence of a visible reminder of a pledge resulted in significantly better outcomes than no reminder of a pledge.

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“…According to the former, children's moral reasoning is influenced by their environment. For example, through their interactions with such socializing agents as parents, siblings, and peers, children learn how to behave based on a set of modeled norms and rules (Dunn, 1988;Ruffy, 1981).…”

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Children's Moral Reasoning and Their Perceptions of Television Violence

Krcmar

Cooke

2001

Journal of Communication

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This experiment examined the effect of a child's age on his or her interpretation of an act of interpersonal violence on television. One hundred eighty-four children in 2 age groups were randomly assigned to 1 of 4 viewing conditions in which they watched a violent video clip. The clips depicted identical violent acts; however, punishment (yes/no) of the violent act and provocation (yes/no) for the violent act were manipulated to create the 4 conditions. Following the video clip, children were asked to judge whether the act was right or wrong and why. They then engaged in a test of their willingness to choose aggression as a solution to a hypothetical interpersonal conflict. As predicted, younger children thought that unpunished violence was more right than punished violence. Older children thought that provoked violence was more right than unprovoked violence, although this result only approached significance. Children's willingness to choose a violent story ending to a hypothetical interpersonal conflict was related to their experimental condition for older children but not for younger children Four decades of research into the influence of television has lead to a widespread belief among media effects scholars that exposure to television violence contributes to violent behavior in society (Paik & Comstock, 1994;Wilson et al., 1997). Several factors, however, have been found to mediate the relationship between viewing violence and increases in violent behavior by a given individual. In the recent National Television Violence Study (Wilson et al., 1997), which summarized the research on the effects of television violence, the justification of a violent act was found to be among the strongest mediating factors predicting viewers' tendency to act aggressively themselves. In fact, a number of experiments have shown that the portrayal of justified acts of violence tends to increase aggression

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Influence of social factors in the development of the young child's moral judgment

Cited by 20 publications

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On the relevance of morality in social psychology: An introduction to a virtual special issue

On the relevance of morality in social psychology: An introduction to a virtual special issue

Marketing Healthful Eating to Children: The Effectiveness of Incentives, Pledges, and Competitions

Children's Moral Reasoning and Their Perceptions of Television Violence

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