Introduction to the special issues on moral development: Part I.

Journal of Genetic Psychology;  June 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......have been interested in understanding moral behavior, focusing on understanding individual...to the scientific understanding of moral behavior, moral affect, and moral cognition...second issue focuses on the measuring of moral behavior and predicting individual differences...

Introduction to the special issues on moral development: Part...

Journal of Genetic Psychology;  September 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......development focuses on the measurement of moral behavior and on predicting individual differences...parents to the development of children's moral behavior is, in our view, unequivocal. The first...various aspects of parenting linked to moral behavior. In addition, the processes ...

CHILDREN WILL "HEAL' IF ADULTS LET GO OF...

The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  October 25, 2007 ;     227 words ......is responsible for the decency and moral behavior of our children that will never be...rights platform. As for the decency and moral behavior of our children, if only the adults...harmful to our children's decency and moral behavior than lying about a sex scandal. If...

Mixed-age grouped preschoolers' moral behavior and understanding

Journal of Research in Childhood Education;  April 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......of mixed-age grouping on children's moral behavior. For example, research has found that...this present study was whether the moral behavior and understanding displayed by preschool...effects of center care on children's moral behavior indicates that prosocial behavior is...

Letters to the editor

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  July 29, 2007 ;     251 words ......and not nonacademic factors of attendance, participation, moral behavior, or deficits in organization skills, should be graded...a real estate agent who cheated on a licensing exam? If "moral behavior" is to have no bearing on evaluating performance in the...

Zambians Urged to Join Forces in Fighting Against HIV/AIDS

Xinhua News Agency;  December 30, 2000 ;     185 words ......delegates from six districts. Chiluba also called for change in moral behavior of Zambians in order to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and...man by abstaining from casual sex and by practicing good moral behavior and remaining faithful to one partner for life. Statistics...

Book by UC Santa Cruz Professor Attacks Character Issue.

Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  December 4, 2002 ;     559 words ......have. A lot of research suggests that moral behavior is absurdly situationally-sensitive...Lack of Character: Personality and Moral Behavior, Doris applies the implications of...relation of educational interventions to moral behavior, Doris said. As far as I can tell at...

Churches and politics

The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;  October 4, 2005 ;     25 words ...All churches should push the gay marriage issue, this is a moral issue, not a political issue and all churches should stand for moral behavior. BOB DAGLEY Weymouth

puritanical

The Oxford American College Dictionary;      42 words ...pu·ri·tan·i·cal / ˌpyoŏrəˈtænikəl / • adj. often derogatory practicing or affecting strict religious or moral behavior. DERIVATIVES: pu·ri·tan·i·cal·ly / -ik(ə)lē / adv.

PREFERS OLD STANDARDS TO TODAY'S SICK SOCIETY.(Editorial)(Editorial)

The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  July 8, 2004 ;     66 words ......Editor: I feel very fortunate to have been brought up during the Great Depression. Objective standards - rules, moral behavior, law, right and wrong - were upheld and endorsed by the majority of parents, schools and churches. Today, the...

From essential characteristic to oxymoron: accounting ethics under the...

Journal of Legal, Ethical and Regulatory Issues;  January 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......professionals to follow the high levels of moral behavior that contribute to the value of the...established about moral reasoning and moral behavior suggests that punitive influences are...others under freely chosen code of moral behavior), 6. Morality of individual principles...

Virtue ethics: A policy recommendation

Public Administration Quarterly;  October 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......morally upgrade ethical thought and moral behavior in public administration. The theory...virtue ethics as the means to improve moral behavior in public organizations. He captured...past few decades who wished to enhance moral behavior in public organizations, the theoretical...

Are our personal ethics in trouble, or is our culture just more aware of...

St. Joseph News-Press;  May 15, 2004 ;     700+ words ......years she too has seen a decline in moral behavior. "We certainly talk more about it now...says that religion doesn't guarantee moral behavior and it's evidenced by the lack of moral behavior in countries steeped in their religion...

Deviled by Lord Devlin.(COMMENTARY)

The Washington Times;  January 7, 2004 ;     700+ words ......morality - in other words, to legislate moral behavior? Or are morals always a matter for...society has the right to legislate moral behavior, has it also the right to use the coercion...1919, the U.S. government legislated moral behavior with the Prohibition Amendment, which...

BRAIN INJURIES CAN AFFECT MORAL BEHAVIOR.(FRONT)

The Virginian Pilot;  October 20, 1999 ;     415 words ......identified rare cases in which injuries to the brain in infancy prevented people from learning normal rules of social and moral behavior in childhood and adolescence. When the infants reached adulthood, they showed no guilt or remorse for bad behavior and seemed...