Elliot Turiel (born 1938) is a United States born psychologist and Chancellor’s Professor at the Graduate School of

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at the

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. He teaches courses on human development and its relation to education.

Education

Turiel completed his PhD in Psychology from

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and was a student of

Lawrence Kohlberg Lawrence Kohlberg (; October 25, 1927 – January 19, 1987) was an American psychologist best known for his theory of stages of moral development. He served as a professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Chicago and at the Gra ...

, who had a strong influence on his work.

Research

Turiel conducts research in the development of social judgments and action, the development of

moral reasoning Moral reasoning is the study of how people think about right and wrong and how they acquire and apply moral rules. It is a subdiscipline of moral psychology that overlaps with moral philosophy, and is the foundation of descriptive ethics. Desc ...

, children’s conceptions of

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and rules in school settings, as well as culture and social development. He has also been a

Guggenheim Fellow Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

and a National Institute of Mental Health Fellow. His area of specialization includes

cognitive development Cognitive development is a field of study in neuroscience and psychology focusing on a child's development in terms of information processing, conceptual resources, perceptual skill, language learning, and other aspects of the developed adult bra ...

, Moral and ethical studies, and social and emotional development.

Books and publications

Following are the books and other publications by Turiel. * ''The development of social knowledge: Morality and convention'' (1983)
citations
* ''The Development of Morality'', published in Handbook of Child Psychology (1998) * ''The Culture of Morality: Social Development, Context, and Conflict'', from Cambridge University Press (2002) * ''Social interactions and the development of social concepts in preschool children'' published in Child Development , 1978) * ''Morality: Its structure, functions, and vagaries'' published in The Emergence of Morality in Young Children (with Melanie Killen and Charles Helwig, 1987) * ''An experimental test of the sequentiality of developmental stages in the child's moral judgments'' published in (1966)

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References

Elliot Turiel at UC Berkeley

Social Domain Theory
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