Are the Competent the Morally Good? Perspective Taking and Moral Motivation of Children Involved in Bullying

By Luciano Gasser, M. Keller. 2009

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Associations Among Middle School Students’ Bullying Roles and Social Skills (2016, background): “In fact, Gasser and Keller (2009) found bullies and prosocial children scored very similarly on various measures of social competence, but bullies had significantly lower scores on measures of moral competence.”
Unique and Interactive Effects of Moral Emotions and Moral Disengagement on Bullying and Defending among School Children (2015, background): “Yet studies on peer bullying have found that bullying behavior is not necessarily related to lack of cognitive skills in moral reasoning (e.g., Caravita, Miragoli, & Di Blasio, 2009; Gasser & Keller, 2009; Gini, Pozzoli, & Hauser, 2011).”
Don't anger me! Bullying, victimization, and emotion dysregulation in young adolescents with ASD (2012, background): “In investigations into the role of emotion dysregulation in the aetiology of bullying and victimization, moral emotions are usually considered equally important as the basic emotions such as anger and fear (Gasser & Keller, 2009; Menesini & Camodeca, 2008).”