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Kohlbergian

Kohlbergian adjective: of or relating to Lawrence Kohlberg (1927–1987), American psychologist best known for his theory of stages of moral development.

Adjective

Kohlbergian (comparative more Kohlbergian, superlative most Kohlbergian)

  1. Of or relating to Lawrence Kohlberg (1927–1987), American psychologist best known for his theory of stages of moral development.
    • The Kohlbergian emergence of increasingly complex stages of moral development is built on the Piagetian emergence of increasingly complex logical operations.2017, Robert Sapolsky, chapter 13, in Behave, Penguin, →ISBN

Forms of Kohlbergian

comparativemore Kohlbergian
superlativemost Kohlbergian

Origin of Kohlbergian

From Kohlberg + -ian.

Questions about Kohlbergian

What does Kohlbergian mean?
Kohlbergian means of or relating to Lawrence Kohlberg (1927–1987), American psychologist best known for his theory of stages of moral development.
What part of speech is Kohlbergian?
Kohlbergian is an adjective.

Words near Kohlbergian in the dictionary

  1. kohl pencil
  2. kohl pencils
  3. kohl rabi
  4. kohl rabis
  5. Kohlberg
  6. Kohlbergian
  7. Kohlbergs
  8. kohled
  9. Kohler
  10. Kohlers
  11. Kohli

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