For the first time, we assessed 5-year-old children's choices between two different ways of
extending ethics to natural entities: the anthropocentric and the biocentric views. For the …

Human actions are largely responsible for environmental problems such as global warming
(Cook et al., 2013, Evans, 2018). It is therefore increasingly important to understand how …

Environmental morality is the foundation of a sustainable future, yet its ontogenetic origin
remains unknown. In the present study, we asked whether 7-month-olds have a sense of …

This research explored early ecological-moral sense, by investigating 2.5-and 5-year-old
children's evaluations of overt and covert pro-environmental actions using both rewarding …

The evidence collected concerning the biocentric judgment that young children express
when evaluating human actions on the environment leads some scholars to suggest that an …

Emerging research suggests that children extend moral regard to the natural world (eg,
forests and waterways). When they do, their moral reasoning is predominately focused on …

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 …

How do environmental morality and sustainable behavior emerge in childhood? We
examined individuals' moral judgments of environmental actions and their observed …

The current study asks how young children judge behaviors that harm the environment as
compared to moral transgressions, social-conventional transgressions, and personal …

We asked whether preschoolers view the environment as a moral concern. In Study 1,
preschoolers rated the morality of actions that harmed either the environment or another …