Moral Psychology [Paperback]

This book, a review of the psychological literatures with allied traditions in ethics, emphasizes parenting and educational strategies for influencing moral behavior, reasoning, and character development and charts a line of research for the post-Kohlbergian era in moral psychology.Developmental Psychology Series -- Preface -- Piagets Theory: Stage and Structure -- Piagets Moral Judgment of the Child -- Kohlbergs Theory: An Overview -- Kohlbergs Stage Theory -- Moral Components and the Defining Issues Test: Enlarging and Constricting the Moral Domain -- Domains of Social Knowledge -- Moral Orientations: Gender, Benevolence, Caring -- Positive Justice and Prosocial Reasoning -- Prosocial Behavior -- Moral Traits and the Moral Personality -- The Moral Personality: Socioanalytic Theory -- The Moral Self -- Postscript -- About the Book and AuthorDaniel K. Lapsley teaches in the Department of Educational Psychology at Ball State University. He has taught previously at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and at the University of Notre Dame.