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Visconti, Kari Jeanne; Ladd, Gary W.; Kochenderfer-Ladd, Becky – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2015
The construct of moral disengagement has increasingly been used by researchers to account for the asymmetry between children's moral reasoning and their moral behavior. According to this theory, moral disengagement occurs most aptly when children are motivated to violate their moral beliefs, such as when they hold antisocial goals during social…
Descriptors: Aggression, Moral Values, Goal Orientation, Social Behavior