Cross-cultural research on moral behavior shows that
A) children in Western cultures demonstrate greater moral maturity than children in non-Western cultures.
B) Chinese and Japanese young people say that adults always have the right to interfere in their personal matters.
C) American young people say that adults always have the right to interfere in their personal matters.
D) children and adolescents in diverse Western and non-Western cultures use similar criteria to reason about moral, social-conventional, and personal concerns.

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Cross-cultural research on moral behavior shows that children and adolescents in diverse Western and non-Western cultures use similar criteria to reason about moral, social-conventional, and personal concerns. This indicates that moral development is not solely dependent on cultural values and norms, but is influenced by universal cognitive processes. Thus, option D is the correct answer. The other options are incorrect as they either make specific cultural assumptions or generalize all young people from different cultures.

Cross-Cultural Research on Moral Behavior Shows That