WILLEM KOOPS - The Development and Structure of Conscience

This book focuses on the structure and development of conscience, a subject that has been dominant in developmental psychology since the 18th century. International experts in the field contribute to this broad overview of the relevant research on the development of moral emotions and on the Kohlbergian-originated cognitive aspects of moral development.

The first section of the book focuses on the cultural conditions that create the context for the development of conscience, such as moral philosophy, religion, and media violence. Building on the theory and research on emotion, other chapters cover issues including the development of shame, self-regulation and moral conduct, social cognition, and models of guilt. The book also covers moral reasoning, identity, atmosphere, and behaviour, and discusses subjects such as lying, how to measure moral development, and issues surrounding gender and aggression.

The Development and Structure of Conscience will be ideal reading for researchers and students of developmental and educational psychology.

Willem Koops is Distinguished Professor of Developmental Psychology at Utrecht University. He has taught at the VU University Amsterdam, the University of Michigan, and several other universities in the USA, Japan, and Indonesia.

Daniel Brugman is Professor of Developmental Psychology: Aspects of Intervention in Youth Care at Utrecht University. His research interests include the effectiveness of programmes to stimulate moral development in children and adolescents and on the relations between moral cognitions and antisocial behaviour.

Tamara J. Ferguson is Professor of Psychology in the Department of Developmental Psychology at Utah State University. Her research interests include the role of emotion in managing ones identity and the impact of such emotion on social relationships and behaviours.

Andries F. Sanders is Emeritus Professor of Experimental Psychology and Ergonomics at the VU University Amsterdam and at the RWTH in Aachen, Germany. He was Managing Editor-in-Chief of Acta Psychologica from 1976 until 1990 and is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

The Development and Structure of Conscience

Edited by Willem Koops, Daniel Brugman, Tamara J. Ferguson, and Andries F. Sanders

The editors would like to thank the Van der Gaag Foundation for their support of this book

Published in 2010
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The development and structure of conscience / edited by Willem Koops... [et al.].
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Conscience. 2. Moral development. I. Koops, W. (Willem)
BJ1471.D48 2010
155.25dc22 2009013649

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ISBN: 978-1841697420 (hbk)