-Es gibt nichts Gutes, ausser: man tut es- so Erich Kastner. Aber es ist nicht einfach, Gutes zu tun oder zu moralisch richtigem Handeln zu erziehen. Die inneren Vorgange, die unser Handeln bestimmen, sind sehr komplex. Ohne diese Vielschichtigkeit zu ignorieren, wird im entwickelten Modell der Entstehungsprozess von Handeln insbesondere in moralrelevanten Situationen strukturiert und charakterisiert. Das Prozessmodell bietet Anknupfungspunkte, nicht nur um die Bedeutung von Personlichkeitsmerkmalen und von der Situation fur Handeln zu erklaren, um den Zusammenhang von (moralischen) Urteilen...

The Handbook of Moral Motivation offers a contemporary and comprehensive appraisal of the age-old question about motivation to do the good and to prevent the bad. From a research point of view, this question remains open even though we present here a rich collection of new ideas and data. Two sources helped the editors to frame the chapters: first they looked at an overwhelmingly fruitful research tradition on motivation in general (attribution theory, performance theory, self-determination theory, etc.) in relationship to morality. The second source refers to the tension between moral...

The Handbook of Moral Motivation offers a contemporary and comprehensive appraisal of the age-old question about motivation to do the good and to prevent the bad. From a research point of view, this question remains open even though we present here a rich collection of new ideas and data. Two sources helped the editors to frame the chapters: first they looked at an overwhelmingly fruitful research tradition on motivation in general (attribution theory, performance theory, self-determination theory, etc.) in relationship to morality. The second source refers to the tension between moral...