Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, Volume 51

Gustavo Carlo is a professor of developmental psychology at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and the recipient of a distinguished research award from the American Psychological Association and the John Templeton Foundation. Carolyn Pope Edwards is Willa Cather Professor and a professor of psychology and of family and consumer sciences at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She is the coauthor of Ngecha: A Kenyan Community in a Time of Rapid Social Change (Nebraska 2004) and the coeditor of Bambini: The Italian Approach to Infant-Toddler Care.

• Introduction: Moral Development Study in the 21st Century - Carolyn Pope Edwards and Gustavo Carlo Human Morality and Temperament - Jerome Kagan (Research Professor Emeritus at Harvard University); The Roots of Goodness: The Fulfillment of Basic Human Needs and the Development of Caring, Helping and Nonaggression, Inclusive Caring, Moral Courage, Active Bystandership, and Altruism Born of Suffering - Ervin Staub (Professor of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Amsherst); The Development of Empathy-Related Responding - Nancy Eisenberg (Professor of Psychology at Arizona State University); The Neo-Kohlbergian Tradition and Beyond: Schemas, Expertise and Character - Darcia Narvaez (Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame); The Development of Moral Identity - Daniel Hart (Professor of Psychology at Rutgers University); Motivation and Moral Development: A Tri-Focal Perspective - F. Clark Power (Professor of Psychology at Notre Dame University)