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Lawrence Kohlberg  

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  • Lawrence Kohlberg (1927–87) was a Jewish American psychologist born in Bronxville, New York. Specializing in research on moral education and reasoning, he is best known for his theory about stages of moral development, which first appeared in his 1958 dissertation. [Source: Encyclopedia of Criminal Justice Ethics; Kohlberg, Lawrence]

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