1. Missing the mark.
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Brusten, Catherine, Jan Stams, Geert, and Gibbs, John C.
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ADOLESCENT psychology , *MORAL development , *EDUCATION , *ATTITUDE (Psychology) , *DELINQUENT behavior , *BEHAVIOR disorders in adolescence - Abstract
The article comments on the study of Hammond Tarry and Nicholas Emler concerning moral development and education with respect to the role of negative attitudes toward institutional authority and lower moral value evaluations in accounting for mild antisocial behavior in early adolescence. Tarry and Emler's evaluation of findings in the studies is questionable as they defend self-report over other modalities of delinquency measurement which they see as relatively artifactual.
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- 2007
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