This symposium was organized to clarity tasks, present and future, of Morality Psychology defined by Ohnishi, the organizer, as one branch of psychology, i.e.an investigation of the psychological mechanism and process of person achieving moral values.
Ohnishi presented the components and aspects of morality modified on Dr. Rest's proposal and reviewed papers, presented at the Annual Convention of the Japanese Association of Educational Psycho logy during the last decads.
Naito presented the tasks of morality psychology from the view point of a cognitive-developmental theory.morality should be in.vesti gated from various viewpoints, and that its specific theory should be constructed.
Ninomiya reviewed the researches of childhood morality from the Piaget theory and proposed further studies on childhood morality and a better clarification of them.
Yamagishi reviewed the esearches of adolescence and adulthood morality from the view point of kolbergian and acknowledged the necessity of more positive research based on particular experiences in adolescence and adulthood.
Ujiie spoke on a research of moral behaviors and proposed a research made in more concrete and real situations. From the audience, Dr. Nagano commented on a clear differentiation betweenmorality should be in.vesti gated from various viewpoints, and that its specific theory should be constructed.
