North American Psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg wrote that the moral growth of human beings has six stages, but nowadays only a small percentage of people achieve the highest stage. Taking Jean Piaget’s ...

My very first scientific publication was an article, co-authored with my graduate school advisor, Robert Hogan, and our colleague, Nicholas Emler, presenting a new version of Hogan's theory of moral ...

The purpose of Aquinas's Ethics is to place Thomas Aquinas's moral theory in its full philosophical and theological context and to do so in a way that makes Aquinas (1224/5-1274) readily accessible to ...

Ever since G. Stanley Hall’s 1892 description of infants learning to love because of the mother’s embrace, the field of moral development has been searching for the answer to one of humanity’s most ...

Examines two opposing theories of moral development, that of Lawrence Kohlberg who believes that there are stages of moral development tied to cognitive development, and that of the learning theorists ...

Individuals who have a high level of moral reasoning show increased activity in the brain's frontostriatal reward system, both during periods of rest and while performing a sequential risk taking and ...

Individuals who have a high level of moral reasoning show increased activity in the brain’s frontostriatal reward system, both during periods of rest and while performing a sequential risk taking and ...

Ethical debate cannot be reduced to the exchange of dogmas from rival traditions or the simple acceptance of irreconcilable disagreement. Moral theory is what most moral philosophers spend our time ...