Many studies suggest that preschoolers initially privilege outcome over intention in their
moral judgments. The present findings reveal that, in contrast, even younger preschoolers …

In industrialized societies, adults exhibit stable preferences for the types of people, animals,
and entities they feel moral concern for (Crimston et al., 2016). Only one published study to …

The current study replicates and extends the finding (Hamlin, Wynn & Bloom, 2007) that
infants prefer individuals who act prosocially toward unrelated third parties over those who …

Ecopsychology has demonstrated the need to reestablish the moral relationship between
human beings and their surroundings while promoting the proenvironmental behavior …

Moral evaluations of ecologically damaging events were studied in 5th, 8th, and 11th
graders and college students (N= 246). Participants made 4 kinds of judgments about 2 …

Prospective, longitudinal analyses revealed that over a 12-year period from ages 6 to 18,
individuals who grew up with mothers with more proenvironmental attitudes engaged in …

In three experiments involving 207 preschoolers and 28 adults, we investigated the extent to
which young children base moral judgments of actions aimed to protect others on utilitarian …

Young children spontaneously engage in normative evaluations of others' actions and
actively enforce social norms. It is unclear, however, how flexible and integrated this early …

Highlights•Infants understand third-party prosocial and antisocial acts.•Infants like prosocial
others and dislike antisocial others.•Preferences are based on both mental states and on …

The ultimate goal of environmental education is to advance people's ecological
performance, and not only to pass on knowledge. To be able to promote people's ecological …