The Unspoken Morality of Childhood: Family, Friendship, Self-Esteem and the Wisdom of the Everyday - Hardcover

Kristen Renwick Monroe is the Chancellor's Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Irvine, where she serves as founding Director of the UCI Interdisciplinary Center for the Scientific Study of Ethics & Morality. She has published over 100 articles and 20 books, including four award-winning works on ethics and political psychology: The Heart of Altruism; The Hand of Compassion, Ethics in an Age of Terror and Genocide, and A Darkling Plain: Stories of Conflict and Humanity during War. An honors graduate of Smith College and the University of Chicago, Monroe has taught at SUNY Stony Brook, the University of British Columbia, NYU, Princeton, and Harvard. She is currently completing a trilogy on moral courage and a book on science and ethics