ABSTRACT
The Handbook of Moral Development is the definitive source of theory and research on the origins and development of morality in childhood and adolescence. It explores morality as fundamental to being human and enabling individuals to acquire social norms and develop social relationships that involve cooperation and mutual respect.
Since the publication of the second edition, groundbreaking approaches to studying moral development have invigorated debates about how to conceptualize and measure morality in childhood and adolescence. The contributors of this new edition grapple with these questions from different theoretical perspectives and review cutting-edge research. The handbook, edited by Melanie Killen and Judith G. Smetana, includes chapters on parenting and socialization, values, emergence of prejudice and social exclusion, fairness and access to resources, moral reasoning and children’s rights, empathy, and prosocial behaviors. Morality is discussed in the context of families, peers, schools, and culture. Thoroughly updated and expanded, the third edition features new chapters on the following:
- Morality in infancy and early childhood
- Cognitive neuroscience perspectives on moral development
- Social responsibility in the context of social and racial justice
- Conceptions of economic and societal inequalities
- Stereotypes, bias, and discrimination
- Victimization and bullying in peer contexts
Reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of the study of moral development, this edition contains contributions from sixty scholars in developmental science, social neuroscience, comparative and evolutionary psychology, and education, representing research conducted around the world. This book will be essential reading for scholars, educators, and students who are in the field of moral development, as well as social scientists, public health experts, and clinicians who are concerned with children and development.
PART I
Morality and Development Across Persons and Contexts
1. Moral Judgments and Actions: Development and Processes of Coordination
Elliot Turiel
2. Development and Variations in Moral and Social-Conventional Judgments: A Social Domain Theory Approach
Judith G. Smetana and Ha Na Yoo
3.Culture, Civil Liberties, and Democracy
Charles C. Helwig
4.The Development of Moral Circles
Lisa Chalik and Marjorie Rhodes
PART II
Morality and Social Change
5. Morality and Conceptions of Social Status, Inequalities, and Group Norms
Riley N. Sims, Kathryn M. Yee, and Melanie Killen
6. Conceptions of Economic Inequality and Societal Fairness
William Arsenio
7. Social Inequalities and Morality
Laura Elenbaas, Ellen Kneeskern, and Amanda Ackerman
8. Being and Becoming: Centering the Morality of Social Responsibility through Children's Right to Participate in Society
Juliana Karras-Jean Gilles, Martin D. Ruck, Michele Peterson-Badali, and Christine Emuka
PART III
Early Morality: Interactions, Cooperation, and Fairness
9. Early Moral Development: Four Phases of Construction Through Social Interactions
Audun Dahl, Marie Grace S. Martinez, Charles P. Baxley, and Talia Waltzer
10. Developing an Early Awareness of Fairness
Jessica A. Sommerville
11. Evidence for an Early-Emerging Moral Core
Brandon M. Woo and J. Kiley Hamlin
12. The Early Development of Sharing: From Pleasurable Social Interactions and Empathic Concern to Normative Considerations
Markus Paulus
13. The Early Ontogeny of Human Cooperation and Morality
Amrisha Vaish and Michael Tomasello
PART IV
Groups, Discrimination, and Prejudice
14. Social Exclusion: The Interplay between Morality and Group Processes
Adam Rutland, Sally B. Palmer, Ayşe Şule Yüksel, and Jeanine Grütter
15. Fairness and Opportunity in STEM Contexts: Gender, Stereotypes and Moral Judgments
Kelly Lynn Mulvey, Adam J. Hoffman, and Luke McGuire
PART V
Empathy, Emotions, and Mental States
16. Empathy-Related Responding in Children
Tracy L. Spinrad, Nancy Eisenberg, and Amanda Morris
17. A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective on Moral Development
Lauren H. Howard and Jean Decety
18. Lying: The Development of our Understanding, Moral Judgements, and Behavior
Angela D. Evans and Kang Lee
19. Theory of Mind and Moral Cognition: Developmental Changes in Integrating Mental States and Moral Judgments
Kristin Hansen Lagattuta and Hannah J. Kramer
PART VI
Parental Socialization, Education, and Values
20. Moral Development from a Socialization Perspective
Joan E. Grusec
21. The Development of Values and their Relation to Morality
Louise Twito-Weingarten and Ariel Knafo-Noam
22. The Role of Conversations in Moral Development
Holly Recchia and Cecilia Wainryb
23. Perceptions of Parenting and Moral Development
Wendy M. Rote and Savannah R. Flak
PART VII
Prosocial Behavior, Aggression, and Violence
24.Prosocial Behaviors and Development
Gustavo Carlo, Laura M. Padilla-Walker, and Paul D. Hastings
25. Kind Emotions and Aggression Across Development
Tyler Colasante, Emma Galarneau, and Tina Malti
26. Moral Development: Value Formation and its Selective Dysfunction in Individuals with Psychopathic/Callous-Unemotional Traits
R. James Blair
27. The Moral Dimensions of Bullying at School: A Social-Ecological Process Perspective
Eveline Gutzwiller-Helfenfinger and Sonja Perren
