Preschoolers’ moral judgment and punishment attribution: Longitudinal links to theory of mind and emotion understanding
Daniela Teodora Seucan,
Raluca Diana Szekely‐Copîndean,
Laura Visu‐Petra
Abstract:Understanding what others think and feel, an essential ingredient of social functioning, develops early on, allowing children to understand and evaluate other people's actions. To assess whether those actions break or uphold moral rules (moral judgments), children must consider the agent's intentions and whether the action harms or helps others. The present study investigated longitudinally the changes and interrelations between cognitive and affective perspective‐taking and moral evaluations in 3‐ to 5‐year‐o… Show more
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