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Ross A. Thompson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Early Moral Development and Attachment Theory
The Oxford Handbook of Parenting and Moral Development, 2019Co-Authors: Ross A. ThompsonAbstract:Attachment theory has provided a seminal orientation to understanding the early Development of parent-child relationships and their enduring influence. Is attachment theory also a Moral Development theory? This chapter examines research on the association of secure attachment with Morally relevant behaviors and dispositions. This review reveals that secure attachment is associated with greater social problem-solving skills and conflict avoidance with peers, enhanced emotion understanding and empathy, and more advanced conscience Development, and there is limited evidence that it is also associated with prosocial behavior. Moreover, parental sensitivity and responsiveness are associated not only with secure attachment, but also with conscience Development, empathy, prosocial motivation, and distress upon wrongdoing. In addition, findings suggest that secure attachment is associated with characteristics of parenting that are likely to contribute to an early developing preMoral sensibility. Although attachment theory does not provide a comprehensive account of how secure attachment contributes to Morally relevant conduct, it offers a perspective on Moral Development that is important to the field. The chapter concludes with an outline of what an attachment perspective to early Moral Development might look like.
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whither the preconventional child toward a life span Moral Development theory
Child Development Perspectives, 2012Co-Authors: Ross A. ThompsonAbstract:A vigorous research literature focused on early childhood conscience, prosocial behavior, and empathy—and also theory of mind, emotion understanding, and social cognition—has important implications for Moral Development theory. It offers a new understanding of the early conceptual, affective, and relational foundations of Moral Development. In addition, it provides the opportunity to create a genuinely life-span theory of Moral Development when it is considered together with the research literatures on Moral character, identity, and judgment at older ages. The purpose of this article is to summarize current research on the early foundations of Moral Development, highlighting how it compares with earlier formulations and describing its implications for constructing a life-span Moral Development theory to guide future research.
Mark B. Tappan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Language, Culture, and Moral Development: A Vygotskian Perspective
Developmental Review, 1997Co-Authors: Mark B. TappanAbstract:Abstract This article outlines a sociocultural perspective on the study of Moral Development. Grounded in Vygotsky's exploration of the Developmental relationship between speech and thinking, it highlights the semiotic mediation of Moral functioning via inner speech as inner Moral dialogue, the social origins of Moral functioning, and the sociocultural situatedness of Moral Development. In so doing it not only gives rise to a very different account of the process of Moral Development from that offered by other theoretical perspectives currently en vogue in the field of Moral Development—most notably, the cognitive-Developmental paradigm—but also addresses questions about the origins of Moral sensibility and questions about differences in Moral functioning that currently plague researchers and theoreticians alike.
Daniel Hart - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Moral Development in Civic and Political Context
The Oxford Handbook of Moral Development, 2020Co-Authors: Daniel HartAbstract:In this chapter, the consequences of civic and political participation for Moral Development are explored. The potential for civic and political activity to accelerate and derail Moral Development is considered through several contemporary examples. Historical and cross-cultural evidence is used to highlight variation in the meaning of civic and political motivation and the likely consequences of participation. Finally, three approaches to facilitating Moral Development through civic education are identified, with the empirical and theoretical shortcomings of each identified. Future research needs are discussed with a focus on the kinds of designs that will most advance the field.
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Moral Development in Adolescence
Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2005Co-Authors: Daniel Hart, Gustavo CarloAbstract:Themes in the papers in this special issue of the JRA on Moral Development are identified. We discuss the intersection of Moral Development research with policy concerns, the distinctive qualities of Moral life in adolescence that warrant investigation, the multiple connotations of “Moral,” the methods typical of Moral Development research, and the influences that shape adolescent Moral Development. Suggestions are made for new methods and new directions in the study of Moral Development.
Judith G. Smetana - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Moral Development, Theories of
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2015Co-Authors: Marc Jambon, Judith G. SmetanaAbstract:Socialization approaches and cognitive-Developmental theory have provided two major approaches to studying Moral Development. Socialization approaches have focused on the Development of conscience through guilt and internalized behavior, typically measured in terms of compliance, whereas cognitive-Developmental theories have emphasized Developmental changes in Moral judgments and reasoning. While important differences persist, contemporary approaches have attempted to integrate thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and have stressed the importance of social interactions. The rise of evolutionary based accounts have led to more research with infants and studies incorporating neuroscience, furthering the understanding of the complex nature of Moral Development.
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Handbook of Moral Development
2013Co-Authors: Melanie Killen, Judith G. SmetanaAbstract:Contents: Preface. Part I: Introduction. Part II: Structuralism and Moral Development Stages. E. Turiel, Thought, Emotions, and Social Interactional Processes in Moral Development. D.K. Lapsley, Moral Stage Theory. S.J. Thoma, Research on the Defining Issues Test. L.J. Walker, Gender and Morality. Part III: Social Domain Theory and Social Justice. J.G. Smetana, Social-Cognitive Domain Theory: Consistencies and Variations in Children's Moral and Social Judgments. M. Killen, N.G. Margie, S. Sinno, Morality in the Context of Intergroup Relationships. C. Helwig, Rights, Civil Liberties, and Democracy Across Cultures. C. Wainryb, Moral Development in Culture: Diversity, Tolerance, and Justice. Part IV: Conscience and Internalization. J.E. Grusec, The Development of Moral Behavior and Conscience From a Socialization Perspective. R.A. Thompson, S. Meyer, M. McGinley, Understanding Values in Relationships: The Development of Conscience. L. Kuczynski, G.S. Navara, Sources of Innovation and Change in Socialization, Internalization, and Acculturation. Part V: Social Interactional, Sociocultural, and Comparative Approaches. J. Dunn, Moral Development in Early Childhood and Social Interaction in the Family. M.B. Tappan, Mediated Moralities: Sociocultural Approaches to Moral Development. J.G. Miller, Insights Into Moral Development From Cultural Psychology. D.P. Fry, Reciprocity: The Foundation Stone of Morality. P. Verbeek, Everyone's Monkey: Primate Moral Roots. P.H. Kahn, Jr., Nature and Moral Development. Part VI: Empathy, Emotions, and Aggression. P.D. Hastings, C. Zahn-Waxler, K. McShane, We Are, by Nature, Moral Creatures: Biological Bases of Concern for Others. N. Eisenberg, T. Spinrad, A. Sadovsky, Empathy-Related Responding in Children. G. Carlo, Care-Based and Altruistically Based Morality. W.F. Arsenio, J. Gold, E. Adams, Children's Conceptions and Displays of Moral Emotions. M.S. Tisak, J. Tisak, S.E. Goldstein, Aggression, Delinquency, and Morality: A Social-Cognitive Perspective. Part VII: Moral Education, Character Development, and Community Service. D. Hart, R. Atkins, T.M. Donnelly, Community Service and Moral Development. L. Nucci, Education for Moral Development. M.W. Berkowitz, S. Sherblom, M. Bier, V. Battistich, Educating for Positive Youth Development. D. Narvaez, Integrative Ethical Education.
Philip A Vernon - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a behavioral genetic study of the dark triad of personality and Moral Development
Twin Research and Human Genetics, 2009Co-Authors: Jennifer Campbell, Julie Aitken Schermer, Vanessa Villani, Brenda Nguyen, Leanne Vickers, Philip A VernonAbstract:The present study is the first behavioral genetic investigation of relationships between the Dark Triad of personality - Machiavellianism, narcissism, and subclinical psychopathy - and Moral Development. Participants were 154 monozygotic twin pairs and 82 same-sex dizygotic twin pairs. Higher scores on Machiavellianism and psychopathy were positively correlated with low levels of Moral Development; high psychopathy scores also correlated negatively with high levels of Moral Development. Individual differences in lower levels of Moral Development were attributable to genetic and nonshared environmental factors but, very interestingly, individual differences in the highest levels of Moral Development showed no genetic basis but were entirely attributable to shared and nonshared environmental factors. Finally, correlations between the Dark Triad and Moral Development variables showed no genetic basis while correlations among the Moral Development variables were variously attributable to correlated genetic and correlated environmental factors.
