Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. The complexity of moral cognition requires multiple and converging levels of analyses -- I. Evolution of Morality -- 1. Evolution of Morality: A Comparative Approach / Sarah Brosnan -- 2. Adaptationist Approaches to Moral Psychology / Max M. Krasnow -- 3. Partner Choice and the Evolution of a Contractualist Morality / Mark Sheskin -- II. Motivations of Morality -- 4. Is the Moral Brain Ever Dispassionate? / Jesse Prinz -- 5. Devoted Actors and the Moral Foundations of Intractable Intergroup Conflict / Jeremy Ginges -- 6. Why We Cooperate / David G. Rand -- III. Development of Morality -- 7. Infantile Origins of Our Moral Brains / J. Kiley Hamlin -- 8. Mechanisms of Moral Development / Liane Young -- 9. Neurocognitive Development of Moral Judgments: The Role of Executive Function / Ayelet Lahat -- 10. Girl Uninterrupted: The Neural Basis of Moral Development among Adolescent Females / Emma V. Roellke -- IV. Affective and Social Neuroscience of Morality -- 11. Neural Correlates of Human Morality: An Overview / Jorge Moll -- 12. Cognitive Neuroscience of Moral judgment and Decision Making / Joshua D. Greene -- 13. Neuromodulators and the (In)stability of Moral Cognition / Regina A. Rini -- V. Psychopathic Immorality -- 14. Immorality in the Adult Brain / Andrea L. Glenn -- 15. Moral Brain: Psychopathology / Mark Dadds -- VI. Considerations and Implications for Justice and Law -- 16. Neuroscience versus Phenomenology and the Implications for Justice / Thalia Wheatley -- 17. Equivocal Relationship between Morality and Empathy / Jason M. Cowell -- Contributors -- Author index -- Subject index..