This quantity examines the mental, social-relational, and cultural foundations of the main uncomplicated ethical commitments. It starts off through the seminal writings of Augusto Blasi, whose writings on ethical cognition, the advance of self-identity, and ethical character have reworked the learn schedule in ethical psychology. This paintings is now the start line of all dialogue in regards to the courting among self and morality; the developmental grounding of the ethical character; and the ethical integration of cognition, emotion, and behaviour. certainly, it really is now generally believed that organizing self-understanding round easy ethical commitments is essential to the formation of an ethical identification which, in flip, underwrites ethical behavior. utilizing Blasi's paintings as some extent of departure, a unique interdisciplinary and overseas crew of students have contributed essays summarizing their very own theoretical and empirical study on those themes.
This publication good points new theories of ethical functioning that variety throughout numerous mental literatures, together with social cognition, cognitive technological know-how, and character improvement. analyzing the social-relational, communitarian, and cultural facets of ethical self-identity, it presents a finished account of ethical character. Uniformly integrative, field-expanding, and at the innovative of study on ethical improvement and character, the e-book appeals to students, developmental theorists and graduate scholars drawn to problems with ethical improvement, schooling, and behaviour, in addition to cognitive improvement theory.
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