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 IMorality and Development Across Persons and Contexts1. Moral Judgments and Actions: Development and Processes of Coordination Elliot Turiel2. Development and Variations in Moral and Social-Conventional Judgments: A Social Domain Theory ApproachJudith G. Smetana and Ha Na Yoo3.Culture, Civil Liberties, and DemocracyCharles C. Helwig4.The Development of Moral CirclesLisa Chalik and Marjorie RhodesPART IIMorality and Social Change5. Morality and Conceptions of Social Status, Inequalities, and Group NormsRiley N. Sims, Kathryn M. Yee, and Melanie Killen6. Conceptions of Economic Inequality and Societal FairnessWilliam Arsenio 7. Social Inequalities and MoralityLaura Elenbaas, Ellen Kneeskern, and Amanda Ackerman8. Being and Becoming: Centering the Morality of Social Responsibility through Children's Right to Participate in SocietyJuliana Karras-Jean Gilles, Martin D. Ruck, Michele Peterson-Badali, and Christine EmukaPART IIIEarly Morality: Interactions, Cooperation, and Fairness9. Early Moral Development: Four Phases of Construction Through Social InteractionsAudun Dahl, Marie Grace S. Martinez, Charles P. Baxley, and Talia Waltzer10. Developing an Early Awareness of FairnessJessica A. Sommerville 11. Evidence for an Early-Emerging Moral CoreBrandon M. Woo and J. Kiley Hamlin12. The Early Development of Sharing: From Pleasurable Social Interactions and Empathic Concern to Normative ConsiderationsMarkus Paulus13. The Early Ontogeny of Human Cooperation and MoralityAmrisha Vaish and Michael TomaselloPART IVGroups, Discrimination, and Prejudice14. Social Exclusion: The Interplay between Morality and Group ProcessesAdam Rutland, Sally B. Palmer, Ayşe Şule Yüksel, and Jeanine Grütter15. Fairness and Opportunity in STEM Contexts: Gender, Stereotypes and Moral JudgmentsKelly Lynn Mulvey, Adam J. Hoffman, and Luke McGuire PART V Empathy, Emotions, and Mental States 16. Empathy-Related Responding in ChildrenTracy L. Spinrad, Nancy Eisenberg, and Amanda Morris17. A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective on Moral DevelopmentLauren H. Howard and Jean Decety18. Lying: The Development of our Understanding, Moral Judgements, and BehaviorAngela D. Evans and Kang Lee19. Theory of Mind and Moral Cognition: Developmental Changes in Integrating Mental States and Moral JudgmentsKristin Hansen Lagattuta and Hannah J. KramerPART VIParental Socialization, Education, and Values20. Moral Development from a Socialization PerspectiveJoan E. Grusec21. The Development of Values and their Relation to MoralityLouise Twito-Weingarten and Ariel Knafo-Noam 22. The Role of Conversations in Moral DevelopmentHolly Recchia and Cecilia Wainryb23. Perceptions of Parenting and Moral DevelopmentWendy M. Rote and Savannah R. FlakPART VIIProsocial Behavior, Aggression, and Violence 24.Prosocial Behaviors and DevelopmentGustavo Carlo, Laura M. Padilla-Walker, and Paul D. Hastings 25. Kind Emotions and Aggression Across DevelopmentTyler Colasante, Emma Galarneau, and Tina Malti 26. Moral Development: Value Formation and its Selective Dysfunction in Individuals with Psychopathic/Callous-Unemotional Traits R. James Blair27. The Moral Dimensions of Bullying at School: A Social-Ecological Process PerspectiveEveline Gutzwiller-Helfenfinger and Sonja Perren

"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