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The field of moral psychology is in a state of empirical abundance with handbooks and compendiums galore. On the one hand we know more about moral functioning than ever before. We understand that humans have competing moral sentiments (Narvaez, 2008b, 2009b), that moral goals can be influenced by the situation (Zimbardo, 2007; Van IJzendoorn & Bakermans-Kranenburg, this book), and that moral personality dispositions drive moral behavior in a person by context interactions (Lapsley & Narvaez, 2004; Narvaez & Lapsley, 2009). On the other hand while moral psychology research perhaps has never been more prolific, individual moral and social functioning may be on the decline.
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Narvaez, D. (2011). Neurobiology, Moral Education and Moral Self-Authorship. In: Ruyter, D.J.d., Miedema, S. (eds) Moral Education and Development. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-716-5_3
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