A real-life temptation situation and stories tapping realism and immanent justice were employed with 7-, 9-, and 11-yearolds to investigate the interrelations of age, resistance to temptation, and morality of constraint behavior. Findings indicated that girls' but not boys' conformity to the rules of the temptation game increased with age. Maturity of moral judgment increased significantly for both sexes with age. On the whole, the tests of association between measures of temptation behavior and mo-al judgment were nonsignificant. The data suggest that, while conscience strength in general appears to increase with age, the behavioral and cognitive dimensions of conscience develop independently.
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