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portraitElliot Turiel
Professor
Cognition and Development

Office: 4317 Tolman
Phone: (510) 642-7972
Email: turiel@berkeley.edu
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E
lliot Turiel teaches courses on human development and its relation to education. He currently holds the title of Chancellor’s Professor and is pursuing research in the development of social judgments and action, the development of moral reasoning, children’s conceptions of authority and rules in school settings, as well as culture and social development. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a National Institute of Mental Health Fellow. His most recent book is The Culture of Morality: Social Development, Context, and Conflict,from Cambridge University Press (2002). His many other publications include "The Development of Morality," in Handbook of Child Psychology (1998); "Notes from the Underground: Culture, Conflict, and Subversion," in Piaget, Evolution, and Development (1998); and "Dominance, Subordination, and Concepts of Personal Entitlement in Cultural Contexts," in Child Development(with C. Wainryb, 1994).



Degrees
Ph.D., Yale University, Psychology

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Areas of Specialization / Interests
Cognitive Development
Moral and Ethical Studies
Social and Emotional Development

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Last Modified: 5/25/06