3rd Edition
Handbook of Moral Development
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
Biography
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).
"The first and second editions of the Handbook of Moral Development framed existing knowledge and advanced future scholarship about moral development. The third edition impressively continues this tradition by presenting the rich theoretical and empirical knowledge about all domains of the field and by illuminating the paths forward for understanding and enhancing the science of moral development. The third edition of this extraordinary reference work is required reading for all developmental scientists."
- Richard M. Lerner, Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science, Director, Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development, Tufts University
"While research on moral development has a rich history, the newest edition of this handbook clearly highlights how cutting-edge research continues to tackle the evolving complexity of morality in today’s world. By both reviewing past research and expanding the canon to include social justice and social responsibility as moral concerns, this handbook provides a comprehensive and socially relevant overview of the ever-growing field of moral development research."- Christia Spears Brown, Ph.D.
Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, College of Arts & Sciences
Lester and Helen Milich Professor of Children at Risk and Associate Chair, Department of Psychology. Associate Editor, British Journal of Developmental Psychology
"Research on moral development, a long-time, core topic in child psychology, has steadily expanded to include studies on inequality, exclusion and bullying, on infant foundations, and on the connections between morality, emotion and mentalizing. Classic and more recent ideas are all surveyed in this comprehensive Handbook. Students of moral development should do the right thing and read the 3rd Edition!"
- Paul Harris, Harvard Graduate School of Education in Cambridge, Massachusetts USA.
"Killen and Smetana present an artfully updated articulation of how morality, and children's moral development, are critical to understanding and interrupting the social injustices that occupy our newsfeeds. Their analysis outlines how morality is more than an esoteric notion of "right" and "wrong", it is at the core of what it means to participate meaningfully in society, to contest racism and discrimination, and to strive collectively for a just world."
- Tiffany Yip, Professor of Psychology Fordham University
"This latest edition of the go-to handbook on moral development offers an effective blend of seminal work and newer advances through the contributions of leading researchers from around the world. This updating assures that the volume will continue to be a most trusted resource for scholars at all levels."
- Andrew Fuligni, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
"Each day of our lives, it seems, we read about or even experience some act we deem moral or amoral, just or unjust, fair or unfair. It is not for no reason that the likes of Locke and Hobbes, Darwin and Freud were drawn to profound questions about human morality. What are the developmental roots of moral judgments and behavior? Morality, we now know, occupies a central nexus in an array of significant influences: biological, personological, social, economic, cultural, and evolutionary. Intrigued? Then the place to turn is the new, erudite, and very welcome edition of the Handbook of Moral Development. Here, two world-renown expert editors have assembled stellar contributors who offer in-depth state-of-the-art conceptual and empirical treatments of the full spectrum of major topics that are bound up in the challenging but essential issue that is human morality."- Marc H. Bornstein, Editor, Parenting: Science and Practice
