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Ruby is complaining about Lucy who hit her in order to get on the swing. Lucy is swinging happily. Michael feels sorry for Ruby and tells Lucy to leave the swing to her, whereas Peter does not care, a common enough situation.
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Gasser, L., Gutzwiller-Helfenfinger, E., Latzko, B., Malti, T. (2013). Moral Emotion Attributions and Moral Motivation. In: Handbook of Moral Motivation. Moral Development and Citizenship Education, vol 1. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-275-4_18
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