Reviews
"....a rich resource on a huge range of topics in moral psychology...." - Bruce Maxwell, Universite du Quebec ... Trois-Rivieres, Journal of Moral Education, "The editors of this book provide a valuable service by pulling together the research on dispositional/personality factors related to morality. The diverse chapters, written by a group of outstanding researchers and theorists, include an overview on what is known about this important topic, delineate various frameworks for conceptualizing the relevant issues, and raise important questions for future work. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in morality and moral development and may convince more personality researchers to study morality." - Nancy Eisenberg, Arizona State University, "The essays in Personality, Identity, and Character: Explorations in Moral Psychology originated in 2006 and 2008 invited symposia on moral personality at Notre Dame, as part of a continuing effort to find the way forward for the science of moral development in the wake of the Kohlberg paradigm. The contribution by Augusto Blasi at the end of this volume is worth the price of the book and a must read for anyone working in moral psychology..." Don Collins Reed, PsycCRITIQUES, "Moral personality has been largely a moribund topic since the classic 1930s research of Hartshorne and May, and the critique of trait theories provided in the 1960s by Walter Mischel. In this volume, Narveaz and Lapsley, two developmental psychologists, have brought together a rich and current collection of well-written chapters in an effort to reconnect morality with theories of personality, narrative psychology, and social psychology. This book is an excellent read and belongs on the shelf of anyone with a serious interest in moral psychology." - Larry Nucci, University of California, Berkeley, "Moral personality has been largely a moribund topic since the classic 1930s research of Hartshorne and May, and the critique of trait theories provided in the 1960s by Walter Mischel. In this volume, Narvaez and Lapsley, two developmental psychologists, have brought together a rich and current collection of well-written chapters in an effort to reconnect morality with theories of personality, narrative psychology, and social psychology. This book is an excellent read and belongs on the shelf of anyone with a serious interest in moral psychology." Larry Nucci, University of California, Berkeley, "The essays in Personality, Identity, and Character: Explorations in Moral Psychology originated in 2006 and 2008 invited symposia on moral personality at Notre Dame, as part of a continuing effort to find the way forward for the science of moral development in the wake of the Kohlberg paradigm. The contribution by Augusto Blasi at the end of this volume is worth the price of the book-and a must read for anyone working in moral psychology..." Don Collins Reed, PsycCRITIQUES, "....a rich resource on a huge range of topics in moral psychology...." Bruce Maxwell, Universit du Qubec Trois-Rivires, Journal of Moral Education, "....a rich resource on a huge range of topics in moral psychology...." Bruce Maxwell, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Journal of Moral Education, "The editors of this book provide a valuable service by pulling together the research on dispositional/personality factors related to morality. The diverse chapters, written by a group of outstanding researchers and theorists, include an overview on what is known about this important topic, delineate various frameworks for conceptualizing the relevant issues, and raise important questions for future work. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in morality and moral development and may convince more personality researchers to study morality." Nancy Eisenberg, Arizona State University
Table of Content
Introduction Darcia Narvaez and Daniel K. Lapsley; 1. The moral personality Dan P. McAdams; 2. The moral functioning of the person as a whole: on moral psychology and personality science Daniel Cervone and Ritu Tripathi; 3. Moral science? still metaphysical after all these years Owen Flanagan; 4. Pluralism and moral identity David B. Wong; 5. Neuroscience and morality: moral judgments, sentiments and values Jorge Moll, Ricardo de Oliveira-Souza and Roland Zahn; 6. Triune ethics: the neurobiological roots of our multiple moralities Darcia Narvaez; 7. Early foundations: conscience and the development of moral character Ross A. Thompson; 8. The development of the moral personality Daniel K. Lapsley and Patrick L. Hill; 9. Urban neighborhoods as contexts for moral identity development Daniel Hart and M. Kyle Matsuba; 10. Moral personality exemplified Lawrence J. Walker and Jeremy A. Frimer; 11. Greatest of the virtues? Gratitude and the grateful personality Robert A. Emmons; 12. The elusive altruist: the psychological study of the altruistic personality Gustavo Carlo, Lisa M. PytlikZillig, Scott C. Roesch and Richard A. Dienstbier; 13. Growing towards care: a narrative approach to prosocial moral identity and generativity of personality in emerging adulthood Michael Pratt, Mary Louise Arnold and Heather Lawford; 14. Moral identity, integrity, and personal responsibility Barry R. Schlenker, Marisa L. Miller and Ryan M. Johnson; 15. The dynamic moral self: a social psychological perspective Benoit Monin and Alex H. Jordan; 16. The double-edged sword of a moral state of mind Linda J. Skitka and G. Scott Morgan; 17. Moral identity in business situations: a social-cognitive framework for understanding moral functioning Karl Aquino and Dan Freeman; 18. The moral functioning of mature adults and the possibility of fair moral reasoning Augusto Blasi; 19. Moral personality: themes, questions, futures Darcia Narvaez and Daniel K. Lapsley.
