Lawrence Kohlberg (October 25th 1927 with Bronxville (New York) - January 19th 1987) is a American Psychologue which taught with the Université of Chicago like to Harvard. According to a classification of Haggbloom et al. , it belongs to the 30 most important psychologists of the XXe century.

Basing its work on the theory of the Stages of acquisition of Jean Piaget, it is mainly known for its research in the field of education, the reasoning and the development, more precisely to have established a scale of the moral development (called scale of Kohlberg; ). Others like Elliot Turiel or James Rest, will contribute to the deepening of its theses.

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