Karen Basinger

Professor
Psychology
Urbana University
United States of America

Academician Psychiatry
Biography

Dr. Karen S. Basinger currently working as a professor of Psychology in Urbana university, USA. She is an experienced educator and researcher that help Urbana psychology majors pursue rewarding careers. She is known internationally and nationally for neo Kohlbergian measures of moral reasoning. She’s currently researching child and adolescent moral identity, moral judgment and social self-efficacy to personal behavior.

Research Intrest

Child and adolescent moral identity; Moral judgment; Social self-efficacy; Personal behaviour

List of Publications
Gibbs JC, Basinger KS, Grime RL, Snarey JR. Moral judgment development across cultures: Revisiting Kohlberg’s universality claims. Developmental Review. 2007 Dec 31;27(4):443-500.
Gibbs JC, Moshman D, Berkowitz MW, Basinger KS, Grime RL. Taking development seriously: Critique of the 2008 JME Special Issue on moral functioning. Journal of Moral Education. 2009 Sep 1;38(3):271-82.
Beerthuizen MG, Brugman D, Basinger KS. Oppositional defiance, moral reasoning and moral value evaluation as predictors of self-reported juvenile delinquency. Journal of Moral Education. 2013 Dec 1;42(4):460-74.