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Older and more moral? — Age-related changes to performances on Piagetian moral reasoning tasks
Author(s)	Lorraine McDonald, Ian Stuart-Hamilton
Journal title	Age and Ageing, vol 25, no 5, September 1996
Pages	pp 402-404
Keywords	Reasoning ; Performance ; Adolescents ; Middle aged ; Age groups [elderly] ; Comparison ; Testing.
Annotation	Three age groups (teenage; 50-65; and 65 and over) completed a written version of Piaget's moral reasoning tasks to determine the general level of moral reasoning and performance on eight separate categories. Significant age effects were found. Though the nature of the age group difference was mixed, younger subjects consistently achieved lower levels of performance. Results indicate that Piaget overestimated all subjects' level of performance on his tasks and that, although there are differences in different areas of moral reasoning, the relationship with age is not uniform in its direction.
Accession Number	CPA-970326012 A
Classmark	DC: 5H: SC: SE: BB: 48: 3T
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