ABSTRACT
This book briefly considers some possible new lines of research in moral psychology. It is not usually the business of a textbook to take on this task, largely because the field is dynamic, good ideas abound, and the future cannot always be seen with sufficient clarity to make prognostication worthwhile. The fact that Kohlberg's theory was a lightening rod of criticism, that so many theoretical, philosophical, and methodological controversies seemed to swirl around it, simply illustrated its influence. The book recognizes a few additional trends in the moral psychology literature that bode well for the future development of this field. Research is currently focused on measurement issues and on charting developmental variations in sociomoral knowledge. But clearly the research program being carried out by Kurtines and his colleagues bears watching as they work out the empirical consequences of this rich, integrative framework.
