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Empathy reflects the ability to perceive and be sensitive to the emotional states of others,
often eliciting a motivation to care for their well-being. It plays a central role in prosocial …

In the songs and bubble feeding of humpback whales; in young killer whales learning to
knock a seal from an ice floe in the same way their mother does; and in the use of sea …

The Handbook of Moral Development is the definitive source of theory and research on the
development of morality. Since the publication of the first edition, ground-breaking …

However, much of the early psychological research on moral development (including
prosocial development) was influenced greatly by the work of rationalists such as Kant. This …

Inhibitory control is thought to demonstrate heterotypic continuity, in other words, continuity
in its purpose or function but changes in its behavioral manifestation over time. This creates …

This study aims at investigating the affective and cognitive components of empathy in
relation to both emotion comprehension and prosocial/hostile behaviors in preschoolers. A …

Developmental theorists have made strong claims about the fundamental prosocial or
aggressive nature of the human infant. However, only rarely have prosocial behavior and …

Meta-emotional intelligence is a recently developed multidimensional construct that, starting
from the original ability model of emotional intelligence, focuses on the cognitive aspects of …

Associations among hypothetical, prototypic moral, and conventional judgments; theory of
mind (ToM); empathy; and personal distress were examined in 108 socioeconomically …