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ERIC Number: EJ760718
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004
Pages: 18
Abstractor: Author
Reference Count: 60
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1520-3247
From Mechanical to Autonomous Agency: The Relationship between Children's Moral Judgments and Their Developing Theories of Mind
Sokol, Bryan W.; Chandler, Michael J.; Jones, Christopher
New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, n103 p19-36 2004
The authors criticize the central place of belief-desire psychology in the theories-of-mind enterprise. They detail the merits of adopting a more agentive framework for conceptualizing human action and demonstrate how children's growing understanding of epistemic agency relates to advances in moral reasoning. (Contains 4 tables and 2 figures.)
Descriptors: Moral Development, Decision Making, Moral Values, Children, Beliefs, Psychology, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Intention
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
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