Moral judgment stories were read to preschoolers who were either in day care or nursery school (n = 20) or at home, not attending any formal program (n = 15). The group-care children focused more on intention in contexts involving injury to another person but tended to be more consequence-based in contexts involving personal property damage than the group at home. These data suggest the influence of the social environment on moral judgments.
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