Elliot Turiel (born 1938) is a psychologist and Distinguished Professor in the Berkeley School of

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at the

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. He teaches courses on human development and its relation to education. He was born in Rhodes, Greece.

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 17, 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, 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

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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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