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Overview

Elliot Turiel is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of psychology, with a notable focus on several subfields including sociology and political science, cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, developmental and educational psychology, and general psychology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics related to moral and emotional judgment, cultural differences, social and intergroup psychology, child and animal learning development, academic and historical perspectives in psychology, mental health and psychiatry, as well as ethics and legal issues in pediatric healthcare.

Among recent publications, Elliot Turiel has authored papers such as:

  • The Development of Moral and Social Judgments: Social Contexts and Processes of Coordination (2020, Eurasian Journal of Educational Research)
  • Eugenics, Prejudice, and Psychological Research (2020, Human Development)

Other papers from the overall sample include works authored by frequent collaborators in related fields:

  • Culture and children's reasoning about preferences and gender norms (2020, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology)
  • Adolescents' judgments about resource inequality involving group disparities (2022, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology)
  • Young people's judgments about respecting and violating human rights (2020, Cognitive Development)

The most frequent publication venues for Turiel's work are the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Human Development, Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, and Cognitive Development.

Frequent collaborators connected with Turiel's research include Kasia Banas, Clare Conry-Murray, Jung Min Kim, Eun-Kyung Chung, and Zina Besirevic, reflecting a breadth of joint research activities.

Best Publications

  • The Development of Morality

    Elliot Turiel

  • The Development of Social Knowledge: Morality and Convention

    Elliot Turiel

  • Social interactions and the development of social concepts in preschool children.

    Larry P. Nucci;Elliot Turiel

  • The Culture of Morality: Social Development, Context, and Conflict

    Elliot Turiel

  • Morality: Its structure, functions, and vagaries.

    Elliot Turiel;Melanie Killen;Charles C. Helwig

  • The Culture of Morality

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  • The development of social knowledge

    Elliot Turiel

  • An experimental test of the sequentiality of developmental stages in the child's moral judgments.

    Elliot Turiel

  • The effect of stimulus familiarity on the use of criteria and justifications in children's social reasoning.

    Philip Davidson;Elliot Turiel;Allen Black

  • Judging social issues: difficulties, inconsistencies, and consistencies.

    Elliot Turiel;Carolyn Hildebrandt;Cecilia Wainryb

  • Level of moral development as a determinant of preference and comprehension of moral judgments made by others.

    James Rest;Elliot Turiel;Lawrence Kohlberg

  • Dominance, subordination, and concepts of personal entitlements in cultural contexts

    Cecilia Wainryb;Elliot Turiel

  • God's Word, Religious Rules, and Their Relation to Christian and Jewish Children's Concepts of Morality

    Larry Nucci;Elliot Turiel

  • Children's Conceptions of Moral and Prudential Rules

    Marie S. Tisak;Elliot Turiel

  • Children'S Social Interactions and Social Concepts: Analyses of Morality and Convention in the Virgin Islands

    Larry P. Nucci;Elliot Turiel;Gloria Encarnacion-Gawrych

  • Children's Concepts of Cross-Gender Activities.

    Trish Stoddart;Elliot Turiel

  • Variation in Seriousness of Transgressions and Children's Moral and Conventional Concepts.

    Marie S. Tisak;Elliot Turiel

  • Children's Conceptions of Adult and Peer Authority.

    Marta Laupa;Elliot Turiel

  • Capturing the Complexity of Moral Development and Education

    Larry Nucci;Elliot Turiel

  • Thought about actions in social domains: Morality, social conventions, and social interactions

    Elliot Turiel

  • Act-rule relations: Children's concepts of social rules.

    Donna R. Weston;Elliot Turiel

  • Culture, Thought, and Development

    Larry P. Nucci;Geoffrey B. Saxe;Elliot Turiel

Frequent Co-Authors

Larry Nucci
Larry Nucci University of California, Berkeley
Philip David Zelazo
Philip David Zelazo University of Minnesota
Cecilia Wainryb
Cecilia Wainryb University of Utah
Judith G. Smetana
Judith G. Smetana University of Rochester
Melanie Killen
Melanie Killen University of Maryland, College Park
Frank C. Keil
Frank C. Keil Yale University
Gilbert Gottlieb
Gilbert Gottlieb University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kristin D. Neff
Kristin D. Neff The University of Texas at Austin
Willis F. Overton
Willis F. Overton Temple University
Deanna Kuhn
Deanna Kuhn Columbia University

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