A Comparison of Moral Reasoning of Groups and Individuals on the “Defining Issues Test”

The article presents a study which compared the moral reasoning of interacting groups and the reasoning of individual members of the group using the defining issues test (DIT) of moral judgement development. The results showed that interacting groups reason at a significantly higher level, as measured by the DIT, than the average of the members of the groups. Although the results are interesting and perhaps promising, at this stage they are subject to limitations. Thus, additional research on the issue seems justified.