Elliot Turiel is an American

United States

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 psychologist and Chancellor’s Professor at the Graduate School of Education

Education

Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...

 at the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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. He teaches courses on human development and its relation to education.

Research

Turiel conducts research in the development of social judgments and action, the development of moral reasoning

Moral reasoning

Moral reasoning is a study in psychology that overlaps with moral philosophy. It is also called moral development. Prominent contributors to theory include Lawrence Kohlberg and Elliot Turiel. The term is sometimes used in a different sense: reasoning under conditions of uncertainty, such as...

, children’s conceptions of authority

Authority

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 and rules in school settings, as well as culture and social development. He has also been a Guggenheim Fellow and a National Institute of Mental Health Fellow. His area of specialization includes cognitive development

Cognitive development

Cognitive development is a field of study in neuroscience and psychology focusing on a child's development in terms of information processing, conceptual resources, perceptual skill, language learning, and other aspects of brain development and cognitive psychology compared to an adult's point of...

, Moral and ethical studies

Ethics

Ethics, also known as moral philosophy, is a branch of philosophy that addresses questions about morality—that is, concepts such as good and evil, right and wrong, virtue and vice, justice and crime, etc.Major branches of ethics include:...

, and social and emotional development.

Books and publications

Following are the books and other publications by Turiel.

• The Culture of Morality: Social Development, Context, and Conflict, from Cambridge University Press (2002)
• The Development of Morality, published in Handbook of Child Psychology (1998)
• Notes from the Underground: Culture, Conflict, and Subversion, published in Piaget, Evolution, and Development (1998)
• Dominance, Subordination, and Concepts of Personal Entitlement in Cultural Contexts, published in Child Development (with C. Wainryb, 1994).