Melanie Killen - Handbook of Moral Development

The Handbook of Moral Development is the definitive source of theory and research on the development of morality. Since the publication of the first edition, groundbreaking approaches to studying the development of morality have reinvigorated debates about what it means to conceptualize and measure morality in early childhood, how children understand fairness and equality, the evolutionary basis for morality, and the role of culture. The contributors to this new edition grapple with these questions and provide answers for how morality originates, changes, evolves, and develops during childhood, adolescence, and into adulthood. Thoroughly updated and expanded, the second edition features new chapters that focus on:

• infancy
• neuroscience
• theory of mind
• moral personality and identity
• cooperation and culture
• gender, sexuality, prejudice, and discrimination.

Reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of the study of moral development, this edition contains contributions from over 50 scholars in developmental science, cognitive psychology, social neuroscience, comparative psychology and evolution, and education.

Melanie Killen , Ph.D., is Professor of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, Professor of Psychology (Affiliate), and Associate Director of the Center for Children, Relationships, and Culture at the University of Maryland. She is the author of Children and Social Exclusion: Morality, Prejudice and Group Identity (2011) and co-editor of Social Development in Childhood and Adolescence: A Contemporary Reader (2011). She studies the development of moral judgment, intergroup attitudes, prejudice and bias, peer relationships, and cultural influences on development.

Judith G. Smetana , Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Developmental Psychology Ph.D. program at the University of Rochester, where she also held the Frederika Warner Chair of Human Development. She is the author of Adolescents, Families and Social Development: How Teens Construct Their Worlds (2011). She studies childrens moral judgment development, parenting, and adolescentparent relationships in different cultural contexts.

Second Edition

Edited by Melanie Killen and Judith G. Smetana

Second edition published 2014

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First edition published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates

2006

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Handbook of moral development / edited by Melanie Killen and
Judith G. Smetana. Second Edition.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Moral development. I. Killen, Melanie. II. Smetana,Judith G.,
1951
BF723.M54H354 2013
155.2'5dc23
2013011942

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For Rob, Sasha, and Jacob (MK), and Ron, Joshua, and Jeremy (JGS) with love, affection, and gratitude.

Melanie Killen , Ph.D., is Professor of Human Development, Professor of Psychology (Affiliate), and the Associate Director for the Center for Children, Relationships, and Culture at the University of Maryland. Dr. Killens research areas of expertise include childrens and adolescents social and moral reasoning, peer relationships, social exclusion, prejudice and intergroup bias, morality and theory of mind, children and the media, and the role of school environments on development. She is the author of Children and Social Exclusion: Morality, Prejudice and Group Identity (2011) with Adam Rutland, co-editor of Social Development in Childhood and Adolescence: A Contemporary Reader (2011) with Robert Coplan, and served as the co-editor of the Handbook of Moral Development (2006) with Judith Smetana.

Judith G. Smetana , Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Developmental Psychology Ph.D. program at the University of Rochester, where she also held the Frederika Warner Chair in Human Development. Her research focuses on childrens moral judgment development, parenting and parenting beliefs, and adolescentparent relationships in cultural contexts, and she has published extensively on these topics. She is the author of Adolescents, Families and Social Development: How Teens Construct Their Worlds (2011) and co-editor of Social Development, Social Inequalities, and Social Justice (2008), with Cecilia Wainryb and Elliot Turiel, and Adolescent Vulnerabilities and Opportunities: Constructivist and Developmental Perspectives (2011) with Eric Amsel. She also served as the co-editor of the Handbook of Moral Development (2006) with Melanie Killen.

William F. Arsenio
Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology
Yeshiva University

Courtney Ball
Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology
University of Rochester

Chloe G. Bland
Department of Psychology
College of Saint Elizabeth

Paul Bloom
Department of Psychology
Yale University

Gustavo Carlo
Department of Human Development and Family Studies
University of Missouri

Maria Paula Chaparro
Department of Psychology
University of Toronto

Shelby Cooley
Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology
University of Maryland

Jean Decety
Department of Psychology
The University of Chicago

Judy Dunn
SGDP Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry
Kings College, London

Nancy Eisenberg
Department of Psychology
Arizona State University

Angela D. Evans
Department of Psychology
Brock University

Joan E. Grusec
Department of Psychology
University of Toronto

Paul D. Hastings
Center for Mind and Brain
University of California, Davis

Charles C. Helwig
Department of Psychology
University of Toronto

Stacey S. Horn
Department of Educational Psychology
University of Illinois, Chicago

Lauren H. Howard
Department of Psychology
The University of Chicago

Keith Jensen
School of Psychological Sciences
University of Manchester

Megan Johnston
Department of Psychology
University of Toronto

Daniel Hart
Center for Children and Childhood Studies
Rutgers University, Camden

Marc Jambon
Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology
University of Rochester

Sarah Kahle
Center for Mind and Brain
University of California, Davis

Melanie Killen