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Book SynopsisThe research reported in this
Monograph documents the narrative accounts and moral evaluations that children between the ages of 5 and 16 made of incidents in which they had been the targets of their peers' unfair or harmful actions and incidents in which they had been those inflicting harm on their peers. By systematically examining children's construals of social interactions, this research brings to the fore the role of interpretation in moral thinking. By moving beyond the assessment of moral judgments made from an uninvolved third-person perspective, it underscores the possibility that children apply their moral concepts differently when they judge instances of harm or injustice from the victim's or the perpetrator's perspectives. Together, these issues bear on how children's moral concepts are applied and develop within their actual social interactions, especially those interactions that appear to violate those very moral concepts. By contributing to our understanding of c
Table of ContentsAbstract vii.
I. Morality, Interpretation, and Perspective 1.
II. The Present Study: Research Strategies and Methods 19.
III. The Narrative Accounts of Victims and Perpetrators 31.
IV. Narrative Accounts and Development 43.
V. Morla Judgements about Conflicts as Understood 62.
VI. Moral Conflicts, Subjectivity, and DEvelopment 72.
Appendix A: The Scoring of Narrative Elements: Annotated Example 85.
Appendix B: The Scoring of Contents of Narrative Elements: Categories and Examples 88.
Appendix C: The Scoring of narrative Coherence: Annotated Examples 95.
Refferences 104.
Acknowledgements 114.
Commentary- Human Agents and the "Joints" of Socail Experience: A Commentary on Wainryb, Brehl, and Matwin.
Bryan W. Sokol and Stuart Hammond 115.
Contributors 123.
Statement of Editorial Policy 124
