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4 - An Indianmoral worldview: developmental patterns in adolescents and adults

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Lene Arnett Jensen
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Clark University, Massachusetts
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Moral Development in a Global World
Research from a Cultural-Developmental Perspective
, pp. 69 - 91
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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