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Kohlberg's Moral Development
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Kohlberg proposed that moral reasoning develops in stages, moving from avoiding punishment, to following social rules, to reasoning from abstract principles.
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Asked why stealing is wrong, children answer by punishment, then by rules, then by principle.
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The stages describe reasoning about morality, not how people actually behave.