The Relation of Moral Judgment Development and Educational Experience to Recall of Moral Narratives and Expository Texts
- 1 September 2007
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in The Journal of Genetic Psychology
- Vol. 168 (3), 251-76
- https://doi.org/10.3200/gntp.168.3.251-276
Abstract
Moral text processing was used as an ecologically valid method for assessing implicit and explicit moral understanding and development. The authors tested undergraduates, seminarians, and graduate students in political science and philosophy for recall of moral narratives and moral expository texts. Multivariate analyses of covariance using educational experience as an independent variable, age and moral judgment score as covariates, and recall of embedded moral arguments as a dependent variable revealed a relation between education and level of moral arguments recalled. Lower stage moral reasoning was best recalled by undergraduates, whereas higher stage reasoning was best recalled by graduate students, with seminarians intermediate for both types of text. Moral judgment score was related to recall of the highest level moral arguments even when age and educational experience were controlled. Moral judgment development appeared to be particularly helpful in recall of expository compared with narrative texts.This publication has 48 references indexed in Scilit:
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