Elliot Turiel

About

Elliot Turiel is a professor who teaches courses on human development and its relation to education at the Berkeley School of Education. He holds the Jerome A. Hutto Chair in the School of Education and is an affiliated professor in the Department of Psychology. His research focuses on social and moral development, particularly on the formulation of a theory of domains of social development involving moral judgments based on concepts of welfare, justice, and rights, and their distinction from understandings of societal conventions and personal jurisdiction. Turiel's work explores how cultures are not homogeneous and how different groups within social hierarchies may disagree on justice and equality, investigating social opposition and moral resistance to perceived unjust cultural practices. His studies include how children, adolescents, and adults attempt to counter inequalities and change practices that favor those in power. His contributions extend to examining the development of judgments about social equality, inequality, and the value of life. Turiel has authored several influential books and numerous publications in the field of moral and social development, and he has received multiple awards and honors for his work, including the Distinguished Contributions to Developmental Science Award from the Jean Piaget Society.

Research topics

• Psychology
• Social psychology
• Humanities
• Sociology
• Developmental psychology
• Political Science
• Epistemology
• Philosophy

Selected publications

• The Development of Social Knowledge

  2023-08-17 · 323 citations

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  The result of a deep research work sustained for more than two decades, this book studies the construction of social knowledge from a constructivist perspective inherited from Piagetian thought. It thus advances in a process of revision and discussion, while maintaining crucial aspects of this current for the approach to the construction of the subject and the object of knowledge, in the search for the elaboration of an explanatory theory for the formation of new knowledge. A collaborative propo…

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• Continuities and Discontinuities in the Development of Moral Judgments

  Human Development · 2017-01-01 · 87 citations

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  Prior research has outlined developmental changes within the conventional and personal domains. Research thus far has provided only limited understanding of age-related changes within the moral domain. That research indicates that there are continuities and discontinuities across ages in moral judgments. The aims of the research presented here were to examine moral judgments in childhood and adolescence, taking into account applications of moral judgments in contexts and the coordination of diff…

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• Authority, Autonomy, and Deception: Evaluating the Legitimacy of Parental Authority and Adolescent Deceit

  Journal of Research on Adolescence · 2017-05-13 · 60 citations

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  = 16.38, 73% European American) were interviewed about hypothetical situations describing adolescents who defied parental directives and lied about their defiance. Judgments about the legitimacy of parents' directives and protagonists' deception differed by types of parent relationship with adolescents (mutual or unilateral). Directives were least accepted, and deception was most accepted, in the context of unilateral relationships. Judgments also differed by domain of the action (personal, prud…

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• Development in the Moral Domain: Coordination and the Need to Consider Other Domains of Social Reasoning

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2017-01-01 · 33 citations

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• The Development of Domains of Moral and Conventional Norms, Coordination in Decision-Making, and the Implications of Social Opposition

  2019-07-17 · 29 citations

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  Abstract This chapter discusses norms in the domains of morality, social convention, and personal jurisdiction from the perspective of psychological development. Many studies have documented that by a young age children think in different ways about each of these domains and that each represents a different developmental pathway. Reasoning about the moral domain, which is a main focus of the chapter, is connected with emotions, and the development of moral judgments stems from individuals’ recip…

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Frequent coauthors

• Larry Nucci

  17 shared

• Charles C. Helwig

  10 shared

• Cecilia Wainryb

  University of Utah

  9 shared

• Judith G. Smetana

  8 shared

• Melanie Killen

  8 shared

• Clare Conry‐Murray

  Johns Hopkins University

  7 shared

• Audun Dahl

  University of California, Santa Cruz

  7 shared

• Marie S. Tisak

  Bowling Green State University

  6 shared

Awards & honors

• Guggenheim Fellow
• National Institute of Mental Health Fellow
• Distinguished Contributions to Developmental Science Award (…
• Recognition Award by the Municipality of Rhodes, Greece (202…

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