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ERIC Number: EJ558646
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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ISSN: ISSN-0195-2269
Moral Heteronomy in Context: Interviewer Influence in New York City and Recife, Brazil.
Saltzstein, Herbert D.; Millery, Mari P.; Eisenberg, Zena; Dias, Maria G.; O'Brien, David P.
New Directions for Child Development, n76 p37-49 Sum 1997
Notes study of interviewer influence on the moral judgment of children from New York City and Recife, Brazil, which found that heteronomy was influenced by the social interaction context. Discusses this influence in terms of the concept of heteronomy, adult-child relations and interaction, and cognitive uncertainty. (KB)
Descriptors: Adult Child Relationship, Age Differences, Childhood Attitudes, Context Effect, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Experimenter Characteristics, Foreign Countries, Interviews, Moral Development, Moral Values, Researcher Subject Relationship, Researchers, Value Judgment
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Brazil; New York
Note: Theme issue: Culture as a Context for Moral Development: New Perspectives on the Particular and the Universal. For commentaries on this article, see PS 527 507 and PS 527 508.