Handbook of Moral Development

Melanie Killen, PhD, is Professor of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology at the University of Maryland. She studies social and moral development, conceptions of social inequalities, origins of prejudice and social exclusion, publishes widely in these areas, and is author of Children and Social Exclusion: Morality, Prejudice, and Group Identity (2011). Judith G. Smetana, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at the University of Rochester. She studies moral development, adolescent-parent relationships, and parenting beliefs and behaviors in diverse contexts. She has published extensively on these topics and is the author of Adolescents, Families, and Social Development: How Teens Construct their World (2011).

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