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In their scoring manual Colby and Kohlberg allow for so-called transitional stages between all “true” stages of moral development, i.e. certain responses to their dilemma questions appear to be above one Kohlberg-type of moral reasoning but as yet below the next one in the sequence (1987b; see also 1987a, pp. 100–101).
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Minnameier, G. (2015). Kohlberg’s Stage 4 ½ Revisited—or: from Halves to Wholes in the Theory of Moral Stages1 . In: Zizek, B., Garz, D., Nowak, E. (eds) Kohlberg Revisited. Moral Development and Citizenship Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-079-6_6
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