Augusto Blasi

Research Interests
1. Moral development, in particular the processes and the levels of integration of moral understanding in personality. 2. The development of the self as subject, particularly the changes in the subjective experience of identity from adolescence through adulthood.

Recent publications
Blasi, A.  (2001). Moral motivation and society: Internalization and the development of the self. In G. Dux and F. Welz (Eds.), Moral und Recht im Diskurs der Moderne. Zur Legitimation gesellschaftlicher Ordnung (pp. 313-329). Opladen, Germany: Leske + Budrich.

Blasi, A. (2004). Neither personality nor cognition: An alternative approach to the nature of the self. In C. Lightfoot, C. Lalonde, and M. J. Chandler (Eds.), Changing conceptions of psychological life (pp. 3-25). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Blasi, A. (2004). Moral functioning: Moral understanding and personality. In D. K. Lapsley and D. Narvaez (Eds.), Moral development, self, and identity (pp. 335-347). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Blasi, A. (2005). Moral character: A psychological approach. In D. K. Lapsley and F. C. Power (Eds.), Character psychology and character education (pp. 67-100). Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press.

Blasi, A. (2005). Identity and its construction during the adolescent years. In “Ser adolescent hoy,” Acts of the Congress of the Fundación de Ayuda contra la Drogadicción (pp. 11-22).  Madrid, Spain: FAD.

Blasi, A. (2007). ‘Amicus Plato sed magis amica veritas’: Bindung und ‘moralische Revolutionäre’ [‘Amicus Plato sed magis amica veritas’: Attachment and ‘Moral revolutionaries’]. In C. Hopf and G. Nunner-Winkler (Eds.), Frühe Bindungen und moralische Entwicklung. Weinheim, Germany: Juventa.