- Oxford Library of Psychology
- Copyright Page
- About the Editor
- Contributors
- Moral Development: From Paradigms to Plurality
- The Development of Care
- The Development of Prosocial Motives
- Culture and the Development of Moralities of Community
- The Development of Moral Self-Awareness
- The Development of Moral Self-Presentation
- The Development of Purpose: An International Perspective
- Moral Identity Development
- The Development of Moral Values in Cultural Contexts
- Parent–Child Value Similarity: Broadening from Intergenerational Transmission to Reciprocal Influences, Genetics, and Environmental Antecedents
- Integrating Cultural Values Through Everyday Experiences: Yucatec Maya Children’s Moral Development
- The Development of Critical Consciousness
- The Development of Moral Reasoning: From Common Beginnings to Diverse Life Course Pathways
- Emotional Experiences in Moral Contexts: Developmental Perspectives
- The Emergence of Moral Responses and Sensitivity
- Early Developments in Acts and Evaluations of Helping: When and How to Help?
- Development of Moral Disengagement: Learning to Make Wrong Right
- The Development of Communal and Spiritual Dutifulness in India: Upholding <i>Dharma</i>, Offering <i>Seva</i>
- Volunteerism
- The Life Span Development of Generativity
- The Psychology of Filial Piety and Moral Decision-Making in Chinese People
- The Development of Forgiveness
- The Development of Pro-Environmentalism in Context
- Moral Flourishing in Later Life Through Purpose Beyond the Self
- Family and Moral Development
- Conversations and Moral Development
- Master Narratives, Ethics, and Morality
- Childcare, Culture, and Child Development: A Swedish Perspective
- Play Groups as Contexts for Moral Development
- Youth Programs as Contexts for Development of Ethical Judgment and Action
- Moral Development in Civic and Political Context
- Religious Groups and Institutions as a Context for Moral Development: Religion as Fertile Ground
- Secular Living as a Context for Moral Development
- Ethnicity and Race as Contexts for Moral Development
- Media as a Context for Studying Moral Development
- Globalization as a Context for Moral Development
- Moral Self-Identity and Character Development
- Moral Choices in Digital Games: Pixelated Morality
- The Interplay of Developing Morality and Gender Attitudes
- Moral Implications of Attitudes, Beliefs, and Behaviors Related to Sexual and Gender Diversity
- The Environmental Commons: Collective Moral Actions and Policies
- Name index
- Subject Index
Abstract and Keywords
Where does human moral sensitivity come from? In this chapter, the authors review research on the development of moral sensitivity in the first 2 years of life. Specifically, they present empirical evidence showing that infants are sensitive to third-party sociomoral interactions in the harm and fairness domains, and they examine the impact of sociomoral evaluations on infants’ social preferences, social interactions, and social expectations. They further discuss mechanisms and factors shaping sociomoral development, alternative interpretations of infants’ responses to sociomoral scenarios, and individual differences in sociomoral sensitivity and morally relevant behaviors. Future research should adopt a multicultural perspective and explore the implications of infants’ sociomoral evaluations across the life span.
Keywords: sociomoral evaluation, infancy, social interaction, social expectation, moral behavior
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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- Oxford Library of Psychology
- Copyright Page
- About the Editor
- Contributors
- Moral Development: From Paradigms to Plurality
- The Development of Care
- The Development of Prosocial Motives
- Culture and the Development of Moralities of Community
- The Development of Moral Self-Awareness
- The Development of Moral Self-Presentation
- The Development of Purpose: An International Perspective
- Moral Identity Development
- The Development of Moral Values in Cultural Contexts
- Parent–Child Value Similarity: Broadening from Intergenerational Transmission to Reciprocal Influences, Genetics, and Environmental Antecedents
- Integrating Cultural Values Through Everyday Experiences: Yucatec Maya Children’s Moral Development
- The Development of Critical Consciousness
- The Development of Moral Reasoning: From Common Beginnings to Diverse Life Course Pathways
- Emotional Experiences in Moral Contexts: Developmental Perspectives
- The Emergence of Moral Responses and Sensitivity
- Early Developments in Acts and Evaluations of Helping: When and How to Help?
- Development of Moral Disengagement: Learning to Make Wrong Right
- The Development of Communal and Spiritual Dutifulness in India: Upholding <i>Dharma</i>, Offering <i>Seva</i>
- Volunteerism
- The Life Span Development of Generativity
- The Psychology of Filial Piety and Moral Decision-Making in Chinese People
- The Development of Forgiveness
- The Development of Pro-Environmentalism in Context
- Moral Flourishing in Later Life Through Purpose Beyond the Self
- Family and Moral Development
- Conversations and Moral Development
- Master Narratives, Ethics, and Morality
- Childcare, Culture, and Child Development: A Swedish Perspective
- Play Groups as Contexts for Moral Development
- Youth Programs as Contexts for Development of Ethical Judgment and Action
- Moral Development in Civic and Political Context
- Religious Groups and Institutions as a Context for Moral Development: Religion as Fertile Ground
- Secular Living as a Context for Moral Development
- Ethnicity and Race as Contexts for Moral Development
- Media as a Context for Studying Moral Development
- Globalization as a Context for Moral Development
- Moral Self-Identity and Character Development
- Moral Choices in Digital Games: Pixelated Morality
- The Interplay of Developing Morality and Gender Attitudes
- Moral Implications of Attitudes, Beliefs, and Behaviors Related to Sexual and Gender Diversity
- The Environmental Commons: Collective Moral Actions and Policies
- Name index
- Subject Index
