Abstract: This is a brief report on the recent studies abroad on young children's moral judgment from the viewpoint of information processing and emotional attribution.They reveal that the moral judgment of young children is affacted by their memory and comprehension; that its development shows an improvement in integration of story information and using different moral criterions in different situations;that young children's emotional attribution of moral events is not consistent with their moral cognition.

Key words: young children, moral judgment, process of cognition, emotional attribution