英雄、反派及介于两者之间的一切：儿童对道德模糊角色的评估
Heroes, villains, and everything in between: Children's assessment of morally ambiguous characters.
作者信息
Yucel Meltem, Stern Jessica A, Eisen Sierra L, Lillard Angeline S, Vaish Amrisha
机构信息
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA; Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA.
Department of Psychological Science, Pomona College, Claremont, CA 91711, USA.
出版信息
J Exp Child Psychol. 2025 Aug;256:106251. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2025.106251. Epub 2025 Mar 28.
Most research on the development of moral judgments has focused on children's assessment of all-good or all-bad characters with little attention to the gray areas of morality. Yet real people's behavior is often morally ambiguous, involving sometimes moral and sometimes immoral actions. In this study, we examined how 4-, 6-, and 8-year-old U.S. children (N = 72; 51% female) evaluate and respond to morally ambiguous characters. Children heard stories that each contained a purely moral character, a purely immoral character, and a morally ambiguous character. The 6- and 8-year-olds were more likely than the 4-year-olds to distinguish the ambiguous character from the moral and immoral characters. These age-related changes elucidate the development of children's assessments of the "gray areas" of morality.
大多数关于道德判断发展的研究都集中在儿童对全善或全恶角色的评价上，而很少关注道德的灰色地带。然而，现实中人们的行为在道德上往往模棱两可，有时涉及道德行为，有时涉及不道德行为。在本研究中，我们考察了4岁、6岁和8岁的美国儿童（N = 72；51%为女性）如何评价和应对道德上模棱两可的角色。孩子们听了一些故事，每个故事都包含一个纯粹道德的角色、一个纯粹不道德的角色和一个道德上模棱两可的角色。6岁和8岁的孩子比4岁的孩子更有可能将模棱两可的角色与道德和不道德的角色区分开来。这些与年龄相关的变化阐明了儿童对道德“灰色地带”评价的发展情况。
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