The consideration of cost in evaluations of moral praiseworthiness among Chinese children

IF 2.8 4区 心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL
Xin Zhao
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Abstract

Children recognise the praiseworthiness of others' moral actions from quite a young age. The work we propose here focuses on whether and how children's judgements of moral praiseworthiness may be affected by cost incurred by the agents. Recent work has revealed developmental changes in how children consider physical and psychological costs in their judgements of moral praiseworthiness. However, this question has only been examined among US children, and little is known about how much the findings can be generalised across cultures. In this article, we examine the consideration of different types of costs (psychological, physical) in moral evaluation by children in China, and compare to the US data. We choose to study children in China not only because it is a non-WEIRD culture, but also because recent work has suggested that there are cultural differences between the US and China in terms of how children conceptualise desire inhibition and self-control. This research will have implications for research on children's moral cognition across cultures.

中国儿童在评价道德值得称赞时对成本的考虑
儿童从小就认识到他人道德行为的可嘉性。我们在此提出的工作重点是,儿童对道德行为值得称赞的判断是否会受到行为主体所付出代价的影响,以及如何受到影响。最近的研究表明,儿童在判断道德行为是否值得称赞时,会考虑生理和心理成本,而这些成本会随着儿童的成长而发生变化。然而,这个问题只在美国儿童中进行过研究,对于研究结果在多大程度上可以推广到不同文化中,我们知之甚少。在本文中,我们研究了中国儿童在道德评价中对不同类型成本(心理、生理)的考虑,并与美国的数据进行了比较。我们之所以选择中国儿童作为研究对象,不仅因为中国是一个非 WEIRD 文化国家,还因为最近的研究表明,中美两国儿童在如何看待欲望抑制和自我控制方面存在文化差异。这项研究将对跨文化儿童道德认知研究产生影响。
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Infant and Child Development
Infant and Child Development PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL-
CiteScore
2.90
自引率
9.10%
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93
期刊介绍: Infant and Child Development publishes high quality empirical, theoretical and methodological papers addressing psychological development from the antenatal period through to adolescence. The journal brings together research on: - social and emotional development - perceptual and motor development - cognitive development - language development atypical development (including conduct problems, anxiety and depressive conditions, language impairments, autistic spectrum disorders, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorders)
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