Philippe Rochat is Professor of Psychology at Emory University. He received his PhD from the University of Geneva, and studied infants as a pre-doctoral and post-doctoral fellow at Brown University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Johns Hopkins University. A 2006-2007 John Simon Guggenheim fellow, he has written over one hundred scholarly articles and is the single author of five books, as well as the editor or co-editor of three books.

Rochat offers a slim but powerful volume, both fascinating and frightening

• INTRODUCTION Moral battlefield and the illusion of moral unity PART 1: FACTS What does it mean to be moral? 1 Human self-reflective curse 2 Double standards 3 Moral acrobats 4 Value creation and moral comfort zones5 Hitler was a vegetarian! 6 No pure monsters PART 2: PROCLIVITIES What guides our moral decisions? 7 Moral sphere collapses 8 A heart made of abundance9 Spherical alliances10 Exclusivity instinct11 Love as exclusion12 Belonging instinct PART 3: MECHANISMS What shapes our moral decisions? 13 Blind spots and shortcuts14 Fundamental attribution error15 Clustering and stereotyping16 Pervasive fetishism17 Ingrained essentialism18 Essentialism and prejudice19 Group essentialism20 Self-essentialism PART 4: DEVELOPMENT What are the origins of our moral decisions? 21 Self-consciousness in development22 Self-deception in development23 Lying and deceiving in development24 Natural roots of moral hypocrisy25 What about culture and development? CONCLUSION Human moral frailty Postscript: Moral acrobatics and human violence

Philippe Rochat is Professor of Psychology at Emory University. He received his PhD from the University of Geneva, and studied infants as a pre-doctoral and post-doctoral fellow at Brown University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Johns Hopkins University. A 2006-2007 John Simon Guggenheim fellow, he has written over one hundred scholarly articles and is the single author of five books, as well as the editor or co-editor of three books.

Rochat offers a slim but powerful volume, both fascinating and frightening

• INTRODUCTION Moral battlefield and the illusion of moral unity PART 1: FACTS What does it mean to be moral? 1 Human self-reflective curse 2 Double standards 3 Moral acrobats 4 Value creation and moral comfort zones5 Hitler was a vegetarian! 6 No pure monsters PART 2: PROCLIVITIES What guides our moral decisions? 7 Moral sphere collapses 8 A heart made of abundance9 Spherical alliances10 Exclusivity instinct11 Love as exclusion12 Belonging instinct PART 3: MECHANISMS What shapes our moral decisions? 13 Blind spots and shortcuts14 Fundamental attribution error15 Clustering and stereotyping16 Pervasive fetishism17 Ingrained essentialism18 Essentialism and prejudice19 Group essentialism20 Self-essentialism PART 4: DEVELOPMENT What are the origins of our moral decisions? 21 Self-consciousness in development22 Self-deception in development23 Lying and deceiving in development24 Natural roots of moral hypocrisy25 What about culture and development? CONCLUSION Human moral frailty Postscript: Moral acrobatics and human violence