Acknowledgments

No woman is an island. Here I would like to acknowledge key groups that over the years have influenced my thinking on psychological development, morality, and culture. To the Committee on Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago, where as a graduate student I studied the complexities of culture. To the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, where as a postdoctoral fellow I learned about subtleties of individuality and spirituality in the United States. To the Life Cycle Institute at Catholic University of America, where hiring a psychologist whose unorthodox scientific research addressing moral psychology and “culture wars” seemed worthwhile. To the Department of Psychology at Clark University, where a history of welcoming original ideas about human development continues. To the Bridging Culture and Development Group sponsored by the Society for Research on Child Development, whose members gave me the assurance and friendships to switch out one-size-fits-all social science models of the twentieth century with a “cultural-developmental” approach where local and global knowledge come together.

I also appreciate the support of the administrative, production, and marketing teams at Cambridge University Press. I thank my editors, Adina Berk, Hetty Marx, and Rebecca Taylor, who embraced the idea of a book on moral development with an international and interdisciplinary team of authors.