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Lawrence Kohlberg

Lawrence Kohlberg

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
62
Citations
42555
World Ranking
1213
National Ranking
564

Overview

Lawrence Kohlberg was affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. The scientist contributed to research primarily through work published in recognized academic venues.

One of the known recent papers is titled "Monism and pluralism in morality: Origins, connotations and debates", published in 2022 in Advances in Psychological Science.

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Frequent publication venue:

  • Advances in Psychological Science

Coauthors frequently collaborated with included:

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Lawrence Kohlberg passed away, and the profile is thus presented in past tense to reflect the completed nature of the academic contributions.

Best Publications

  • Stage and sequence: The cognitive-developmental approach to socialization

    Lawrence Kohlberg

  • Essays on moral development

    Lawrence Kohlberg

  • The psychology of moral development

    Lawrence Kohlberg

  • The Philosophy of Moral Development Moral Stages and the Idea of Justice

    Lawrence Kohlberg

  • The philosophy of moral development

    Jack T. Hanford;Lawrence Kohlberg

  • The psychology of moral development : the nature and validity of moral stages

    Lawrence Kohlberg

  • Lawrence Kohlberg's Approach to Moral Education

    F. Clark Power;Ann Higgins-D'alessandro;Lawrence Kohlberg

  • Die Psychologie der Moralentwicklung

    Lawrence Kohlberg;Wolfgang Althof

  • From is to ought: How to commit the naturalistic fallacy and get away with

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  • Continuities and discontinuities in childhood and adult moral development

    L Kohlberg;R Kramer

  • Moral stages: A current formulation and a response to critics.

    Lawrence Kohlberg;Charles G. Levine;Alexandra Hewer

  • Moral development: A review of the theory

    Lawrence Kohlberg;Richard H. Hersh

  • Development as the Aim of Education

    Lawrence Kohlberg;Rochelle Mayer

  • The Adolescent as a Philosopher: The Discovery of the Self in a Postconventional World.

    Lawrence Kohlberg;Carol Gilligan

  • The Claim to Moral Adequacy of a Highest Stage of Moral Judgment

    Lawrence Kohlberg

  • The Cognitive--Developmental Approach to Moral Education.

    Lawrence Kohlberg

  • The development of children's orientations toward a moral order. I. Sequence in the development of moral thought.

    Lawrence Kohlberg

  • The Effects of Classroom Moral Discussion upon Children's Level of Moral Judgment

    Moshe M. Blatt;Lawrence Kohlberg

  • 1. Stages of moral development as a basis for moral education

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  • The meaning and measurement of moral development

    Lawrence Kohlberg

  • Child Psychology and Childhood Education: A Cognitive-Developmental View

    Lawrence Kohlberg

  • A Cognitive-Developmental Approach to Moral Education.

    Lawrence Kohlberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Elliot Turiel
Elliot Turiel University of California, Berkeley
Deanna Kuhn
Deanna Kuhn Columbia University
Carol Gilligan
Carol Gilligan New York University
Larry Nucci
Larry Nucci University of California, Berkeley
John B. Carroll
John B. Carroll University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
James V. Wertsch
James V. Wertsch Washington University in St. Louis
Neil Mercer
Neil Mercer University of Cambridge
Terezinha Nunes
Terezinha Nunes University of Oxford

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