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Moral psychology

Daniel K. Lapsley

(Developmental psychology series)

Westview Press, c1996

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references(p. 247-278) and indexes

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Volume

ISBN 9780813330327

Description

This study integrates a comprehensive review of the psychological literatures with allied traditions in ethics. Moral rationality and decision-making; the development of the sense of fairness and justice, and of prosocial dispositions; as well as the notion of moral self and moral identity, and their relation to issues of character and virtues, are discussed in the context provided by psychological and philosophical paradigms.
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: pbk ISBN 9780813330334

Description

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.

Table of Contents

Developmental Psychology Series -- Preface -- Piaget's Theory: Stage and Structure -- Piaget's Moral Judgment of the Child -- Kohlberg's Theory: An Overview -- Kohlberg's 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 Author

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