Meanings
adjective
- tending to promote social cohesion
Earlier scoring systems, which failed to clearly differentiate content and structure, tended to misscore as stage 3 reasoning that was in fact structurally more advanced but that focused on affiliative content.
1994, Bill Puka, Moral Development: New research in moral development, page 11
Translations
Portuguese afiliativo
- afiliativotending to promote social cohesion
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“affiliative.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/affiliative. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
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