Review comments-article 1489

This is an interesting study with several significant comparisons with cross-cultural research on adolescents’ moral, personal, and psychological attitudes. The comparisons with research in different cultural settings needs some information on the cultural context and values focusing on the social domains. Without that information it is difficult to understand how these assumptions developed in adolescents and did it influence their judgments and behavior in the real world. Personally, having done research on Brazilian values and cultural/religious context, the response of the adolescents makes sense. They have not yet individuated from their familial and cultural context. Further, when we consider identity development models, such as Marcia’s model, they may never individuate due to the strong hold of the culture and religion in Brazilian society. The design uses only one measure to identify the variables under study. This study would be greatly strengthened with additional measures were included on the social domains under study, along with comparison among different social/cultural groups within Brazilian society. Somehow, all the adolescents are seen as a singular group when there are significant cultural differences among social/cultural groups in Brazilian society. These analyses would greatly enhance the research and possibly help identify similarity and differences among social and cultural groups. Personally, I had significant difficulty understanding the narrative; I recognize that writing in English when you are not a native speaker poses certain challenges, and I have tried to identify unclear statements. 

APA writing style needed.
Abstract needs a title and a separate page
No pagination!
Involve hurting? Clarify
Two questionnaires were employed?
What is interference of admiration?, Do you mean lack of admiration? Factors that would interfere with admiration of an idol?
“in 63 adolescents” restate to “the participants in the study were 63…”
Provide more cultural and familial context for the participants.
Define dialogical reliability and provide supportive evidence.
“The results show that admiration did not interfere with the judgments in three of four situations involving hurting and indicated that most adolescents judged the situations with justifications that did not consider concern about hurting others.” Unclear statement, please clarify.
“It is a theory that takes social interaction as a principle and investigates…” restate “the primary principle of social interaction theory is social interaction; it investigates the process of …”
“…with the cultural environment they are inserted in” revise sentence to focus on the socialization process.
“domain, which is inherent to social relations” could “integral” be more effective in this statement?
“social process…” Should this be plural?
“organization norms…” Should this be organizational?
“covering” do you mean addressing?
“expectation…” this should be plural
“The psychological domain represents the concern that the human being has with him or herself, encompassing aspects of physical and mental health, and of personal choices, preferences and interests” Restate this sentence.
“we can understand the…” remove the; and make reason plural.
“since there is a…” Use a more tentative statement.
“super wrong” substitute very wrong.
“universalizable…” universality of reasoning?
“showed” use active voice.
“It is only from the…” Would “at” work better?
“development through a “U” or a parable.” Incomplete sentence and it needs further clarification.
“enchantment by their…” Do you mean “for” their parents?
“for other admiration figures.” Restate.
“in a distance to authority…” Consider: “by distancing themselves from authority figures…”
“to think the world…” To think “about” the world.
“illustratively representing such development through a “U” or a parable.” Is this sentence incomplete?
“and personal personality.” Delete personal.
“tend to decrease their enchantment by their parents.” Do you mean they start to seek external validation?
Stating that admiration has not been researched may be incorrect, because, hero worship, followers behaviors, etc., are all indicators of admiration!
Rephrase “researchers specialized in the subject”
Rephrase “action’s actor”
Clarify: “personal rights overlap when judging a situation of indirect harm to another”
Do you mean “by showing no interest in the other’s suffering?”
What do you mean “not by any external interference?” Clarify conventional wisdom in a specific culture?
“since they presented a certain demand with the attitudes of celebrities” Do you mean “they had certain expectations of celebrities?” 
“formulated because of data from Decety…”do you mean “based on data from…”
“However, the adolescents in this sample only changed their judgments in the situation of revenge by judging their idols more rigorously for committing transgressions to generic actors.” Provide a rationale based on your findings, were they disappointed in their idols?
Provide a rationale for this statement and rephrase it: “the desire to create a distance to one’s family.”
Rephrase: “on this development stage…”
“new research needs to be developed…” delete developed, e.g., new research needs to investigate…
Restate: “...what reveals two limits of present research: the number of participants as well as the need to investigate adolescents’ judgments about the situation of hurting others regardless of mitigating aspects such as revenge, absence of intention or presence of personal interests.”

