Table of Contents

Introduction: Meaning, measurement, and correlates of moral development 1. The evolved developmental niche and child sociomoral outcomes in Chinese 3-year-olds 2. Shame and guilt development in preschoolers: The role of context, audience and individual characteristics 3. Counterfactual reasoning and moral emotion attribution 4. Moral emotions and the development of the moral self in childhood 5. The structure and correlates of a measure of prosocial moral reasoning in adolescents from Spain 6. Moral dilemma in adolescence: The role of values, prosocial moral reasoning and moral disengagement in helping decision making 7. Moral judgement in adolescents: Age differences in applying and justifying three principles of harm 8. Moral vs. non-moral attribution in adolescence: Environmental and behavioural correlates 9. Describing and testing an intermediate concept measure of adolescent moral thinking 10. Situational moral adjustment and the happy victimizer 11. Change in values and moral reasoning during higher education 12. The development of moral motivation across the adult lifespan

About the Author

Daniel Brugman has been working as a Senior Researcher and Special Professor in ‘developmental aspects of interventions in youth care at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. His main interests focused on moral development and moral functioning in adolescence.


Monika Keller is senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, and Honorary Professor at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. Her research focuses on the development of moral cognition and emotion in cultural context and on fairness in economic games and the education of socio-moral competence.


Bryan Sokol is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. His research interests include the development of children's social understanding and socio-emotional competence, empathy and moral agency, and conceptions of selfhood.