The Journal of Genetic Psychology back issues from September 2007:
Introduction to the special issues on moral development: Part II.(Editorial)
Sep 01, 2007; ... This second issue in the two-part series on moral development focuses on the measurement of moral behavior and on predicting individual differences in moral development from a variety of factors, such as affective processes, cognitive processes, education, and contextual factors. ...
Adolescent empathy and prosocial behavior in the multidimensional context of school culture.
Sep 01, 2007; ... THE FUNDAMENTAL IMPORTANCE OF EMPATHY-RELATED responding and prosocial behavior toward other people has been investigated by only a few researchers, and even fewer investigators have examined empathy itself in adolescence (Eisenberg & Fabes, 1990). In this research, we studied the relation ...
The relation of moral judgment development and educational experience to recall of moral narratives and expository texts.
Sep 01, 2007; ... MOST KNOWLEDGE CANNOT BE EXPLAINED because it is implicit rather than explicit (Hogarth, 2001; Keil & Wilson, 1999). This fact is apparent in moral judgment research. Historically, researchers have studied moral reasoning at the two extremes of understanding. Production tasks such as ...
Contemporaneous and 1-year longitudinal prediction of children's prosocial behavior from sympathy and moral motivation.
Sep 01, 2007; ... THE QUESTION OF WHETHER MORAL EMOTIONS, besides moral reasoning, are important factors for moral functioning has shifted throughout the histories of both moral philosophy and psychology. Philosophers such as David Hume (1751/1957) and Adam Smith (1759/1976) regarded feelings of sympathy as ...
Cognitive and emotional control and perspective taking and their relations to empathy in 5-year-old children.
Sep 01, 2007; ... THE DEVELOPMENT OF EMPATHY has been studied within developmental psychology primarily because of its conceptual and empirical relations to prosocial and socially competent behaviors and development. The link between empathy and prosocial behavior has been the topic of two meta-analyses ...
Taking the first step toward a moral action: a review of moral sensitivity measurement across domains.
Sep 01, 2007; ... Moral sensitivity is the first component of the 4-component moral action process (J. R. Rest, 1986). The author reviews moral sensitivity operationalization and measurement across multiple samples and domains, She reviews 3 definitions of the construct ...