Handbook of Moral Development
by Melanie Killen, Judith G. Smetana
3rd Edition
Publisher: Routledge
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9780367497569 |
| eText ISBN | 9781000604474 |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Publishing Year | 2023 |
| Edition | 3rd Edition |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 484 |
The Handbook of Moral Development, 3rd Edition, edited by Melanie Killen and Judith G. Smetana, presents research and theory on the origins and growth of morality in childhood and adolescence. The volume treats morality as fundamental to human nature, enabling children to adopt social norms and build relationships rooted in cooperation and mutual respect.
Chapters examine how morality develops across families, peers, schools, and broader cultural environments. Sourced topics include parental socialization, moral reasoning, values, empathy, children's rights, and the emergence of prejudice.
Drawing on contributions from sixty international researchers across developmental science, education, neuroscience, and evolutionary psychology, the volume serves as an authoritative reference for scholars, educators, students, clinicians, and public health professionals.
Table of Contents
PART I: Morality and Development Across Persons and Contexts
Chapter 1: Moral Judgments and Actions: Development and Processes of Coordination
Chapter 2: Development and Variations in Moral and Social-Conventional Judgments: A Social Domain Theory Approach
Chapter 3: Culture, Civil Liberties, and Democracy
Chapter 4: The Development of Moral Circles
PART II: Morality and Social Change
Chapter 5: Morality and Conceptions of Social Status, Inequalities, and Group Norms
Chapter 6: Conceptions of Economic Inequality and Societal Fairness
Chapter 7: Social Inequalities and Morality
Chapter 8: Being and Becoming: Centering the Morality of Social Responsibility through Children's Right to Participate in Society
PART III: Early Morality: Interactions, Cooperation, and Fairness
Chapter 9: Early Moral Development: Four Phases of Construction Through Social Interactions
Chapter 10: Developing an Early Awareness of Fairness
Chapter 11: Evidence for an Early-Emerging Moral Core
Chapter 12: The Early Development of Sharing: From Pleasurable Social Interactions and Empathic Concern to Normative Considerations
Chapter 13: The Early Ontogeny of Human Cooperation and Morality
PART IV: Groups, Discrimination, and Prejudice
Chapter 14: Social Exclusion: The Interplay between Morality and Group Processes
Chapter 15: Fairness and Opportunity in STEM Contexts: Gender, Stereotypes and Moral Judgments
PART V: Empathy, Emotions, and Mental States
Chapter 16: Empathy-Related Responding in Children
Chapter 17: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective on Moral Development
Chapter 18: Lying: The Development of our Understanding, Moral Judgements, and Behavior
Chapter 19: Theory of Mind and Moral Cognition: Developmental Changes in Integrating Mental States and Moral Judgments
PART VI: Parental Socialization, Education, and Values
Chapter 20: Moral Development from a Socialization Perspective
Chapter 21: The Development of Values and their Relation to Morality
Chapter 22: The Role of Conversations in Moral Development
Chapter 23: Perceptions of Parenting and Moral Development
PART VII: Prosocial Behavior, Aggression, and Violence
Chapter 24: Prosocial Behaviors and Development
Chapter 25: Kind Emotions and Aggression Across Development
Chapter 26: Moral Development: Value Formation and its Selective Dysfunction in Individuals with Psychopathic/Callous-Unemotional Traits
Chapter 27: The Moral Dimensions of Bullying at School: A Social-Ecological Process Perspective
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