Research Handbook on Lifespan Moral Development

This comprehensive Research Handbook explores the complex history of lifespan moral development and how it drives current research in moral psychology. With thorough analysis conducted by emerging and established scholars, it seeks to reinvigorate contemporary lifespan moral development research.Expert contributors examine enduring topics and metatheoretical approaches, including relational developmental systems perspectives, developmental evolution and the emergence of moral capacities in early life. They highlight moral self-identity and developmental processes in emerging and early adulthood. Expanding on lifespan considerations of generativity, purpose and self-transcendence, the Research Handbook presents questions on the development of social justice as well as cultivating character and virtue.The Research Handbook on Lifespan Moral Development is a vital resource for academics and researchers of moral psychology. Scholars and practitioners of developmental psychology and philosophy will also greatly benefit from its theoretical and practical recommendations.