Children’s reasoning with peers and parents about moral dilemmas.

• DOI: 10.1037/dev0000807
• Publication Date: 2019-09-12T14:21:49Z
• Authors: Maria Mammen; Bahar Köymen; Michael Tomasello
• Keywords: PsycINFO

Children encounter moral norms in several different social contexts. Often it is hierarchically structured interactions with parents or other adults, but sometimes more symmetrically peers. Our question was whether children's discussions of differ these two Consequently, we had 4- and 6-year-old children (N = 72) reason about dilemmas their mothers Both age groups opposed partner's views explicitly justified own often peers than mothers. Mothers adapted to the cognitive levels (e.g., focused on abstract 4-year-old children), almost always a pedagogical intent. results suggest that mothers, judgments are experienced mostly as non-negotiable dictums, coequal they personal beliefs can be actively negotiated. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).