North American Psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg wrote that the moral growth of human beings has six stages, but nowadays only a small percentage of people achieve the highest stage. Taking Jean Piaget’s ...

WELLFLEET — The abandoned modernist house high on a dune overlooking the ocean near Newcomb Hollow that belonged to the eminent psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg will be the next home to be restored by ...

The quoted passage contains in a condensed form the conclusions that, as a central motif, run through and determine Lawrence Kohlberg’s work, namely the view that the idea of justice, as well as the ...

There’s a famous moral thought experiment, the Heinz Dilemma, that is supposed to tell us about a person’s moral development. What it might actually tell us is that moral development doesn’t matter.

There was a time when most people followed society’s mandates for the common good. There have always been outliers—but after two years of COVID, the escalation of ordinary citizens’ bad behavior is ...

Kohlberg's stages of moral development were conceived by Lawrence Kohlberg to explain the development of moral reasoning. This theory holds that moral reasoning, which is the basis for ethical ...

How do kids develop a sense of right and wrong? Have you ever wondered why some people stand up for what's right while others ...

Moral development has been the topic of philosophical and psychological debate for centuries. Psychologist Carol Gilligan's theory of moral development challenged traditional viewpoints. Her ...