This is not a pipe.

Personal creativity can also be understood as a kind of postconventional behavior. Postconventionality was originally proposed by Kohlberg (1987) to describe the highest level of moral development, or at least the highest level of moral reasoning. The earlier stages are preconventional (the child does not have the cognitive capacity to grasp “rules,” “morals,” or “conventions” of any sort) and conventional (the individual blindly conforms to what others do and expect). I suggested that the conventional stage is apparent not only in moral reasoning but also in creative performances… It may help explain the fourth-grade slump for example, as well as the literal stage of language and the loss of self-expression in children’s representational art.

Postconventional reasoning characterizes the individual who understands conventions but still thinks for him– or herself.

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