Daniel K Lapsley
Biographic Data
| ID | 204204 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel K Lapsley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel K |
| FAMILY NAME | Lapsley |
| SIGNATURE | LAPSLEY D K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Notre Dame |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6104-6852 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 146 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The Moral Purpose of Wisdom
What it means to flourish and to live well the life that is good for one to live is typically addressed in psychology by formidable research programs on the Big Three constructs of purpose, wisdom, and moral identity. Yet each construct fails to address, and so is unable to resist, what Kekes (1995) calls the permanent adversities of contingency, conflict, and evil. These adversities are inescapable features of human agency that will compromise g…
The moral purpose of higher education: Articulacy, strong evaluation and the moral self
The moral purpose of higher education is to help students transmute functional conceptions of a good life to one that is guided by ethical frameworks and to equip students with the metacognitive features of moral wisdom to better cope with the permanent adversities that inescapably haunt human agency. After discussing developmental and ethical aspects of moral formation, and the common themes in psychological and philosophical perspectives on mor…
Phronesis, Virtues and the Developmental Science of Character
The Plot Thickens: Personality and Its Development
Moral Self-Identity as the Aim of Education
Moral Identity and Developmental Theory
The notion that self-identity and morality are deeply implicated has long-standing roots in both ethical theory and psychology. In ethical theory it is evident in Harry Frankfurt's [1971] account of what it means to be a person: A person (as opposed to a wanton) is someone who cares about morality. A person cares about the desirability of one's desires (second-order desires) and then wishes to will them all the way to action (second-order volitio…
Subjective Invulnerability and Perceptions of Tobacco-Related Benefits Predict Adolescent Smoking Behavior
Identifying factors that influence adolescents’ decisions to start smoking is necessary to improve interventions for reducing tobacco use. The current longitudinal study was designed to determine the direction of influence between feelings of invulnerability to harm and cigarette smoking, and to test whether the perceived risks and benefits of smoking mediate the relationship between invulnerability and smoking. Participants were 228 adolescents …
Moral development at the crossroads: New trends and possible futures
This article introduces a special section on moral development. We claim that the field is now undergoing a resurgence of theoretical and methodological innovation after the eclipse of paradigmatic moral stage theory. Although research on prosocial development, moral emotions, and social domain theory has sustained interest in moral development, recent additional trends have contributed to its resurgence. This includes research in neuroscience, s…
Moral‐Character Education
The moral-character formation of children and adolescents is an imposing challenge for parents and educators, and it has attracted significant research interest for decades. We review orienting assumptions that guide moral-character education (MCE) and the centrality of values in schools and classrooms. The moral and character education paradigms are contrasted in terms of underlying ethical theory, tradition of liberal education and preferred pe…
Positive Youth Development
Change You Can Believe In: Changes in Goal Setting During Emerging and Young Adulthood Predict Later Adult Well-Being
A widely held assumption is that changes in one’s goals and motives for life during emerging and young adulthood have lasting influences on well-being into adulthood. However, this claim has yet to receive rigorous empirical testing. The current study examined the effects of prosocial and occupational goal change during college on adult well-being in a 17-year study of goal setting ( N = 416). Using a latent growth model across three time points,…
Subjective Invulnerability, Risk Behavior, and Adjustment in Early Adolescence
The current study investigated whether invulnerability manifests with adaptive and maladaptive outcomes during early adolescence. We sampled 248 (53% female; 63% Caucasian; [Formula: see text] years) early adolescents on the Adolescent Invulnerability Scale (AIS), and measures of drug use, delinquency, depressive symptoms, and mastery and coping. The AIS demonstrated a two-factor structure, which captured whether adolescents felt invulnerable to …
Commentary
Moral Agency, Identity and Narrative in Moral Development
Commentaries| April 09 2010 Moral Agency, Identity and Narrative in Moral Development: Commentary on Pasupathi and Wainryb Subject Area: Psychiatry and Psychology , Women's and Children's Health Daniel K. Lapsley Daniel K. Lapsley University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind., USA Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Human Development (2010) 53 (2): 87–97. https://doi.org/10.1159/000288210 Article history Publish…
Subjective Invulnerability, Optimism Bias and Adjustment in Emerging Adulthood
Purpose, hope, and life satisfaction in three age groups
Using the Revised Youth Purpose Survey (Bundick et al., 2006 Bundick, M, Andrews, M, Jones, A, Mariano, JM, Bronk, KC and Damon, W. 2006. Revised youth purpose survey, Stanford, CA: Unpublished instrument, Stanford Center on Adolescence. [Google Scholar]), the Trait Hope Scale (Snyder et al., 1991 Snyder, CR. 2003. March). Measuring hope in children. Paper presented at the Child Trends Indicators of Positive Development Conference. 2003, Washingt…
Personality, Identity, and Character: Explorations in Moral Psychology
Moral notions are foundational questions that have commanded deep reflection since antiquity, reflection that psychological science cannot evade, because the moral formation of children is a central concern of parents, schools, and communities charged with educating the next generation. In this respect there are few domains of study more crucial than moral psychology and few topics of greater importance than the development of moral self-identity…
The ups and downs of the moral personality: Why it’s not so black and white
Persons and situations in the moral domain
On dual processing and heuristic approaches to moral cognition
We examine the implications of dual-processing theories of cognition for the moral domain, with particular emphasis upon 'System 1' theories: the Social Intuitionist Model (Haidt), moral heuristics (Sunstein), fast-and-frugal moral heuristics (Gigerenzer), schema accessibility (Lapsley & Narvaez) and moral expertise (Narvaez). We argue that these theories differ from each other in important ways and should be carefully distinguished. We examine t…
Moral chronicity and social information processing: Tests of a social cognitive approach to the moral personality
Moral Development, Self, and Identity
Contents: Preface. L.J. Walker, Gus in the Gap: Bridging the Judgment-Action Gap in Moral Functioning. R. Bergman, Identity as Motivation: Toward a Theory of the Moral Self. F.C. Power, The Moral Self in Community. R. Atkins, D. Hart, T.M. Donnelly, Moral Identity Development and School Attachment. D. Moshman, False Moral Identity: Self-Serving Denial in the Maintenance of Moral Self-Conceptions. L. Nucci, Reflections on the Moral Self Construct.…
Prototypic Moral Character
Four studies tested whether moral character is organized as a cognitive prototype. Study 1 involved a free listing of features of virtuous persons. Study 2 required participants to rate each trait on its centrality to good character. Astandard recognition memory paradigm was used in Studies 3 and 4 to test whether participants reported more false recognition of trait attributes that they have not seen but are consistent (virtue central) with the …
Toward an integrated theory of adolescent ego development: The "new look" at adolescent egocentrism
The theoretical and empirical status of the traditional theory of adolescent egocentrism is examined and found wanting. An alternative theory is reviewed that reconceptualizes the ideational patterns of "egocentrism" as adaptational and coping functions of ego development, avoids anomalies found in the traditional theory, and promises a progressive research program
Separation-Individuation and the "New Look" at the Imaginary Audience and Personal Fable: A Test of an Integrative Model
The relationship between the imaginary audience (IA) and the personalfable (PF), narcissism, and various dimensions of separation-individuation was examined. The subjects were 45 sixth-graders, 54 eighth-graders, 40 tenth-graders, and 30 twelfth-graders, drawn from one school district in a predominantly middle-class community. Newly developed measures of imaginary audience and the personal fable were used, as were the Narcissistic Personality Inv…
Prototypic Moral Character
Four studies tested whether moral character is organized as a cognitive prototype. Study 1 involved a free listing of features of virtuous persons. Study 2 required participants to rate each trait on its centrality to good character. Astandard recognition memory paradigm was used in Studies 3 and 4 to test whether participants reported more false recognition of trait attributes that they have not seen but are consistent (virtue central) with the …
Adolescent egocentrism and formal operations: Tests of a theoretical assumption
The theoretical relation between adolescent egocentrism and formal operations was addressed in two studies. In the first study this relation was assessed with the Adolescent Egocentrism Scale (AES) and a battery of formal reasoning tasks devised by Lunzer, administered to a sample of 6th-, 8th-, 1 Oth-, and 12th-grade subjects. The results revealed only significant negative or nonsignificant correlations between the measures in early adolescence.…
On dual processing and heuristic approaches to moral cognition
We examine the implications of dual-processing theories of cognition for the moral domain, with particular emphasis upon 'System 1' theories: the Social Intuitionist Model (Haidt), moral heuristics (Sunstein), fast-and-frugal moral heuristics (Gigerenzer), schema accessibility (Lapsley & Narvaez) and moral expertise (Narvaez). We argue that these theories differ from each other in important ways and should be carefully distinguished. We examine t…
Separation-Individuation and the "New Look" at the Imaginary Audience and Personal Fable: A Test of an Integrative Model
The relationship between the imaginary audience (IA) and the personalfable (PF), narcissism, and various dimensions of separation-individuation was examined. The subjects were 45 sixth-graders, 54 eighth-graders, 40 tenth-graders, and 30 twelfth-graders, drawn from one school district in a predominantly middle-class community. Newly developed measures of imaginary audience and the personal fable were used, as were the Narcissistic Personality Inv…
Moral chronicity and social information processing: Tests of a social cognitive approach to the moral personality
Adolescent egocentrism-sociocentrism and self-consciousness
Promoting Identity Development in Adolescents
A model of identity formation based on the cognitive developmental stages of social-perspective taking is described. The model assumes that identity can be achieved through cognitive strategies of considering the self in relation to one friend, one's family, the peer group, and society. A study with high school students was undertaken to test the model. The program included 43 high school seniors and lasted for two weeks. The experimental student…
Parental influences on the development of adolescent autonomy and identity
Moral development at the crossroads: New trends and possible futures
This article introduces a special section on moral development. We claim that the field is now undergoing a resurgence of theoretical and methodological innovation after the eclipse of paradigmatic moral stage theory. Although research on prosocial development, moral emotions, and social domain theory has sustained interest in moral development, recent additional trends have contributed to its resurgence. This includes research in neuroscience, s…
Subjective Invulnerability, Optimism Bias and Adjustment in Emerging Adulthood
Adolescent Attachment and Ego Identity: A Structural Equations Approach to the Continuity of Adaptation
The purpose of this study was to examine the concurrent relation between adolescent attachment to parents and the achievement of ego identity in late adolescence within a lifespan continuity of adaptation frame-work. Also examined were the contribution of parental control to the formation of attachment and the acquisition of ego identity. One-hundred one college freshmen responded to at least two measures (each) of parental attachment, ego identi…
Self-Monitoring and the "New Look" at the Imaginary Audience and Personal Fable: An Ego-Developmental Analysis
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relation between self-monitoring and the imaginary audience and personal fable constructs, and their relation to levels of ego development in early and late adolescence. Subjects included 29 fifth-graders, 26 seventh-graders, 26 ninth-graders, 23 eleventh-graders, and 22 college undergraduates. Standard assessments of self-monitoring, imaginary audience, and personal fable were used. Ego developmen…
Toward a Theoretical Perspective on the Legislation of Adolescence
A theoretical perspective on the historical origins of adolescence in the United States is outlined. Based on a materialist theory of social change, it is argued that adolescence is best understood as the state-appropriation of youth leisure, that the imposition of this status was effected through the enactment of compulsory education legislation, and that the reason for enacting this legislation was to increase the average propensity to consume …
Subjective Invulnerability, Risk Behavior, and Adjustment in Early Adolescence
The current study investigated whether invulnerability manifests with adaptive and maladaptive outcomes during early adolescence. We sampled 248 (53% female; 63% Caucasian; [Formula: see text] years) early adolescents on the Adolescent Invulnerability Scale (AIS), and measures of drug use, delinquency, depressive symptoms, and mastery and coping. The AIS demonstrated a two-factor structure, which captured whether adolescents felt invulnerable to …
Do economic conditions influence how theorists view adolescents
The ups and downs of the moral personality: Why it’s not so black and white
Testing the generality and automaticity of self-reference encoding with release from proactive interference
Moral judgment, personality, and attitude to authority in early and late adolescence
Longitudinal and cross-cultural validation of the belief-discrepancy reasoning construct
Distributive justice development and social class: A replication
Fifty-six children from kindergarten and third grade were given the Distributive Justice Scale, vocabulary, and sociometric peer ratings. Results showed that regardless of grade the lower-class children lagged behind the middle-class children in distributive justice development even when verbal ability was controlled. The finding replicated a previous study drawn from the same population. Both studies showed statistically equivalent scores. The p…
Subjective Invulnerability and Perceptions of Tobacco-Related Benefits Predict Adolescent Smoking Behavior
Identifying factors that influence adolescents’ decisions to start smoking is necessary to improve interventions for reducing tobacco use. The current longitudinal study was designed to determine the direction of influence between feelings of invulnerability to harm and cigarette smoking, and to test whether the perceived risks and benefits of smoking mediate the relationship between invulnerability and smoking. Participants were 228 adolescents …
Persons and situations in the moral domain
Moral development interventions in early adolescence
1983). Moral development interventions in early adolescence. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 22, Early Adolescence: A New Look, pp. 134-144
Parental influences on the development of adolescent autonomy and identity
Adolescent egocentrism-sociocentrism and self-consciousness
Distributive justice development and social class: A replication
Fifty-six children from kindergarten and third grade were given the Distributive Justice Scale, vocabulary, and sociometric peer ratings. Results showed that regardless of grade the lower-class children lagged behind the middle-class children in distributive justice development even when verbal ability was controlled. The finding replicated a previous study drawn from the same population. Both studies showed statistically equivalent scores. The p…
Promoting Identity Development in Adolescents
A model of identity formation based on the cognitive developmental stages of social-perspective taking is described. The model assumes that identity can be achieved through cognitive strategies of considering the self in relation to one friend, one's family, the peer group, and society. A study with high school students was undertaken to test the model. The program included 43 high school seniors and lasted for two weeks. The experimental student…
Coordination of Perspectives: The Importance of Stimulus Dimensionality
An evaluation of the importance of the dimensionality of the spatial stimuli in a coordination of perspectives task is presented. It was hypothesized that using three-dimensional comparison stimuli and two-dimensional choice stimuli might result in the tapping of different cognitive skills than when both sets of stimuli are two-dimensional. Children (N = 96) aged between 5 and 12 years as well as college students (n = 24) were tested with either …
Moral development interventions in early adolescence
1983). Moral development interventions in early adolescence. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 22, Early Adolescence: A New Look, pp. 134-144
Moral judgment, personality, and attitude to authority in early and late adolescence
Longitudinal and cross-cultural validation of the belief-discrepancy reasoning construct
Another look at the theoretical assumptions of adolescent egocentrism
Elkind on egocentrism
Rationality in psychological research: The good-enough principle
Rationality in psychological research: The good-enough principle
quot; This article reexamines a number of methodological and procedural issues raised by Meehl (1967, 1978) that seem to question the rationality of psychological inquiry. The first issue concerns the asymmetry in theory testing between psychology and physics and the resulting paradox that, because the psychological null hypothesis is always false, increases in precision in psychology always lead to weaker tests of a theory, whereas the converse …
Toward a Theoretical Perspective on the Legislation of Adolescence
A theoretical perspective on the historical origins of adolescence in the United States is outlined. Based on a materialist theory of social change, it is argued that adolescence is best understood as the state-appropriation of youth leisure, that the imposition of this status was effected through the enactment of compulsory education legislation, and that the reason for enacting this legislation was to increase the average propensity to consume …
Early Adolescent Labor in Colonial Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay
Adolescent egocentrism and formal operations: Tests of a theoretical assumption
The theoretical relation between adolescent egocentrism and formal operations was addressed in two studies. In the first study this relation was assessed with the Adolescent Egocentrism Scale (AES) and a battery of formal reasoning tasks devised by Lunzer, administered to a sample of 6th-, 8th-, 1 Oth-, and 12th-grade subjects. The results revealed only significant negative or nonsignificant correlations between the measures in early adolescence.…
Adolescent Attachment and Ego Identity: A Structural Equations Approach to the Continuity of Adaptation
The purpose of this study was to examine the concurrent relation between adolescent attachment to parents and the achievement of ego identity in late adolescence within a lifespan continuity of adaptation frame-work. Also examined were the contribution of parental control to the formation of attachment and the acquisition of ego identity. One-hundred one college freshmen responded to at least two measures (each) of parental attachment, ego identi…
Do economic conditions influence how theorists view adolescents
Testing the generality and automaticity of self-reference encoding with release from proactive interference
Self-Monitoring and the "New Look" at the Imaginary Audience and Personal Fable: An Ego-Developmental Analysis
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relation between self-monitoring and the imaginary audience and personal fable constructs, and their relation to levels of ego development in early and late adolescence. Subjects included 29 fifth-graders, 26 seventh-graders, 26 ninth-graders, 23 eleventh-graders, and 22 college undergraduates. Standard assessments of self-monitoring, imaginary audience, and personal fable were used. Ego developmen…
Separation-Individuation and the "New Look" at the Imaginary Audience and Personal Fable: A Test of an Integrative Model
The relationship between the imaginary audience (IA) and the personalfable (PF), narcissism, and various dimensions of separation-individuation was examined. The subjects were 45 sixth-graders, 54 eighth-graders, 40 tenth-graders, and 30 twelfth-graders, drawn from one school district in a predominantly middle-class community. Newly developed measures of imaginary audience and the personal fable were used, as were the Narcissistic Personality Inv…
Toward an integrated theory of adolescent ego development: The "new look" at adolescent egocentrism
The theoretical and empirical status of the traditional theory of adolescent egocentrism is examined and found wanting. An alternative theory is reviewed that reconceptualizes the ideational patterns of "egocentrism" as adaptational and coping functions of ego development, avoids anomalies found in the traditional theory, and promises a progressive research program
Prototypic Moral Character
Four studies tested whether moral character is organized as a cognitive prototype. Study 1 involved a free listing of features of virtuous persons. Study 2 required participants to rate each trait on its centrality to good character. Astandard recognition memory paradigm was used in Studies 3 and 4 to test whether participants reported more false recognition of trait attributes that they have not seen but are consistent (virtue central) with the …
Moral Development, Self, and Identity
Contents: Preface. L.J. Walker, Gus in the Gap: Bridging the Judgment-Action Gap in Moral Functioning. R. Bergman, Identity as Motivation: Toward a Theory of the Moral Self. F.C. Power, The Moral Self in Community. R. Atkins, D. Hart, T.M. Donnelly, Moral Identity Development and School Attachment. D. Moshman, False Moral Identity: Self-Serving Denial in the Maintenance of Moral Self-Conceptions. L. Nucci, Reflections on the Moral Self Construct.…
Moral chronicity and social information processing: Tests of a social cognitive approach to the moral personality
On dual processing and heuristic approaches to moral cognition
We examine the implications of dual-processing theories of cognition for the moral domain, with particular emphasis upon 'System 1' theories: the Social Intuitionist Model (Haidt), moral heuristics (Sunstein), fast-and-frugal moral heuristics (Gigerenzer), schema accessibility (Lapsley & Narvaez) and moral expertise (Narvaez). We argue that these theories differ from each other in important ways and should be carefully distinguished. We examine t…
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