The study examined correlations between empathy and moral judgment. 342 school children aged 9 to 12 yr. were tested with two Kohlberg dilemmas and the Mehrabian and Epstein scale on emotional empathy. The results confirm the positive relation found in earlier studies. It is, however, possible that the higher levels of moral judgment were more closely related to the cognitive pole of empathy whereas convenrional morality would be closer to the affective pole of empathy.
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