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Moral Motivation and the Happy Victimizer Phenomenon

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Handbook of Moral Motivation

Part of the book series: Moral Development and Citizenship Education ((MORA,volume 1))

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Kohlberg’s (1981, 1984) description of moral development is based on the assumption of cognitive-affective parallelism: At the pre-conventional level, children up to about 10 years of age believe norms hold because they are set by authorities and backed by sanctions and are followed to avoid punishment or win rewards.

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  1. formerly head of the research unit ‘Moral Development of the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, munich university, Munich, Germany

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Nunner-Winkler, G. (2013). Moral Motivation and the Happy Victimizer Phenomenon. In: Handbook of Moral Motivation. Moral Development and Citizenship Education, vol 1. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-275-4_16

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