Faculty
Darcia F. Narvaez
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Profile
Dr. Narvaez’ research explores questions of moral cognition, moral development and character education. How do moral development and moral identity influence information processing? How do individuals develop moral perception? How do we cultivate moral character? Some of Dr. Narvaez’ findings: Children do not extract the same themes from stories as adults. Persons with moral identities evaluate story characters differently. Playing a prosocial videogame influences subsequent information processing. Theoretically, she tries to bridge the gaps in approaches to character education and moral psychology, integrating cognitive science, expertise and classical notions of virtue cultivation in the Integrative Ethical Education model. Her Triune Ethics theory is an integrative account of moral psychology rooted in neurobiology. She directs the Center for Ethical Education (http://cee.nd.edu) which hosts the Good Media, Good Kids project that uses the Rating Ethical Content System to rate the ethical content in children’s media.
Selected Publications
Narvaez, D., & Gleason, T. (in press). The Influence of moral judgment development and moral experience on comprehension of moral narratives and expository texts. Journal of Genetic Psychology, special issue
Nucci, L., & Narvaez, D. (Eds.) (in press). Handbook of Moral and Character Education. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Narvaez, D. (in press). The Social-Intuitionist Model: Some counter-intuitions [Response to Haidt and Bjorklund’s “Social intuitionists answer six questions about moral psychology”]. In W. A. Sinnott-Armstrong (Ed.), Moral Psychology, Vol. 2, The Cognitive science of morality: Intuition and diversity. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Narvaez, D., Lapsley, D., Hagele, S., & Lasky, B. (2006). Moral chronicity and social information processing: Tests of a social cognitive approach to the moral personality. Journal of Research in Personality, 40, 966–985.
Lapsley, D. K. & Narvaez, D. (2006). Character Education. In Vol. 4 (A. Renninger & I. Siegel, volume eds.), Handbook of Child Psychology (W. Damon & R. Lerner, Series Eds.) (pp. 248-296). New York: Wiley.
Narvaez, D. (2005). The Neo-Kohlbergian Tradition and Beyond: Schemas, Expertise and Character. In G. Carlo & C. Pope-Edwards (Eds.), Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, Vol. 51: Moral Motivation through the Lifespan (pp. 119-163). Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.
Narvaez, D. (2005). Integrative Ethical Education. In M. Killen & J. Smetana (Eds.), Handbook of Moral Development (pp. 703-733). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Narvaez, D., & Lapsley, D. (2005). The psychological foundations of everyday morality and moral expertise. In D. Lapsley & {Power, D. (Eds.) Character Psychology and Character Education (pp. 140-165). Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press.
Lapsley, D., & Narvaez, D. (Eds.) (2004). Moral development, self and identity: Essays in honor of Augusto Blasi. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Narvaez, D., Bock, T., Endicott, L., & Lies, J. (2004). Minnesota’s Community Voices and Character Education Project. Journal of Research in Character Education, 2, 89-112.
Endicott, L., Bock, T., & Narvaez, D. (2003). Moral Reasoning, Intercultural Development, and Multicultural Experiences: Relations and Cognitive Underpinnings. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 27, 403-419.
Narvaez, D. (2002). Does Reading Moral Stories Build Character? Educational Psychology Review 14(2), 155-171.
Rest, J. R., Narvaez, D., Bebeau, M., & Thoma, S. (1999). Postconventional moral thinking: A neo-Kohlbergian approach. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Narvaez, D., Gleason, T., Mitchell, C. & Bentley, J. (1999). Moral Theme Comprehension in Children. Journal of Educational Psychology, 91(3), 477-487.
Narvaez, D., Getz, I., Rest, J. R., & Thoma, S. (1999). Individual moral judgment and cultural ideologies. Developmental Psychology, 35, 478-488.
Contact Information
Office: 100 Haggar Hall
Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
Phone: (574) 631-7835
Email: dnarvaez@nd.edu
Website: http://www.nd.edu/~dnarvaez