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Psychology Unplugged

Moral Development: Why We Do the Right Thing: Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development

Psychology Unplugged

Dr. Corey J. Nigro

Health & Fitness, Social Sciences, Mental Health, Science, Medicine

3.8710 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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0:00.0

Hi, everyone. It's Dr. Nagor again. Our next episode of Psychology Unplugged. Thanks, as always, to all of our listeners and followers. Please continue to keep reaching out. I try my best to get back to everybody. And for those of you guys who go through Buzzsprout, I can read your messages. I appreciate them.

0:21.5

It's just I have no way to respond. So I'll give you the contact information at the end of this

0:29.6

episode. I'm looking forward to several people coming out from very far places to see me for

0:35.3

emails. So today's topic, I mentioned doing this one and a few others a while ago, but it kind of

0:44.2

expands on what I did previously, you know, the continued ongoing exploration of human morality, which I think follows naturally from the last episode

0:58.6

on the psychology of God.

1:01.4

I'm going to focus on Lawrence Colbert and his theory of moral development and try to look

1:08.4

at it connected to psychology and cognitive science,

1:12.1

neuroscience, philosophy, and real world issues.

1:18.9

Understanding how humans decide right from wrong is really one of the most critical, psychological, and existential questions.

1:35.2

And I think even in today's world that is so highly polarized with AI, moral ambiguity, tensions in our own country, tensions overseas,

1:50.4

everybody having to belong to a group, everybody thinking that their group is right and the

1:56.3

other group is wrong and making decisions that certainly impact not just the proximity of a person's

2:06.9

life, but, you know, far-reaching implications. And I said, I thought it was a good extension

2:15.9

of the psychology of God episode.

2:20.7

So Lawrence Colbert, he was an American psychologist who practiced in Massachusetts and taught at Harvard.

2:29.1

And he was really influenced a lot by Jean Piaget and his work on cognitive development.

2:36.8

And I will do an episode on Piage as well.

2:41.0

And that's something.

2:41.6

There was a topic that I've worked on from the neuropsychology perspective in

2:46.7

P.

2:47.4

And P.

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