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kohlberg and moral development  

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  • Lawrence Kohlberg (1927–1987) formulated the stage theory of six culturally universal stages of moral development in his 1958 University of Chicago dissertation. This was as an elaboration of Jean Piaget's (1896–1980) moral development study (1932). [Source: Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives; Kohlberg and Moral Development]

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