The development of children morality and its influencing factors

The empirical researches on morality including moral cognition,moral emotion and moral behavior in the past decade are introduced in this paper. The characteristics of moral development in childhood and the internal and external influencing factors on moral development are analyzed. Besides,it is put forward through literature analysis that more emphasis in future researches should be laid on cognitive neural mechanism of moral development,development of moral emotion and moral self,and longitudinal follow-up study.