Daniel Lapsley ^1* Gustavo Carlo ² Alexandra Davis ³ Richard Fabes ⁴ Deborah June Laible ⁵

• ¹ University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, United States
• ² University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, United States
• ³ University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
• ⁴ Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States
• ⁵ Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States

Maiya and colleagues, for example, on the basis of an ecocultural strength-based model of prosocial moral development (Davis et al., 2021), showed that mothers' social rewards were indirectly related (via familism values and ethnic identity) to higher levels of everyday helping behavior in a sample of recent immigrant U.S. Latino/a adolescents. The lesson here is that parents can influence internalization of cultural strengths that influence prosocial behavior.In an innovative cross-national study of six countries, Cirimele and colleagues also invoke the bioecological model in their investigation of whether the processes that drive prosocial development in adolescence are universal or whether other-oriented helping behavior varies in accord with broad cultural factors associated with a country's Human Development Index (HDI: life expectancy at birth, expected years of schooling, mean years of schooling, standard of living). They showed that prosocial behavior generally shows a linear increase as children move into adolescence, but this trend is moderated by HDI. Prosocial behavior tended to increase in contexts with lower HDI, but remain stable in high HDI contexts.The notion of "altruism-born-of-suffering" refers to persons who are motivated to address social injustice even in the presence of adversity (Staub, 2005). Previous evidence has typically relied on retrospective interviews or cross-sectional study designs. Carlo and colleagues showed that U.S. Mexican girls who reported early-life trauma exhibited increases in altruistic behavior across adolescence and into young adulthood, but only in girls who reported high levels of familism values in mid-adolescence. These findings also provide evidence on the importance of cultural values as triggers for prosocial moral development even after reported early-life trauma.The findings also counter common negative stereotypes of U.S. ethnic/racial minoritized youth.Family socialization effects were also investigated with respect to racial bias (Agalar and colleagues), the development of non-prejudicial attitudes towards sexual minorities (Padilla-Walker, Jankovich, & Archibald), and deviant behavior (Chi, Fang, & Meng). The latter project showed how that supportive parenting that meets adolescent interpersonal needs reduces the tendency towards deviance. Padilla-Walker and colleagues showed that prejudice and nonprejudice follows different developmental lines, and that mothers' teaching that emphasizes rejection or correction of biased attitudes is particularly important for encouraging nonprejudiced value orientations in adolescents. Finally, Agalar and colleagues showed that colorconscious racial socialization counters adolescent racial prejudice, particularly when socialization practices support adolescent autonomy.These papers underscore the fact that prosocial moral development not only interfaces dynamically with broad ecological systems, but is also bound inextricably with other normative challenges whose co-development rely upon a suite of "adaptive developmental regulations" (Lerner & Overton, 2008, p. 249) commonly found in asset promoting families and schools. If so there is as much ordinary magic in the promotion of social justice as there is in building resilience processes in development (cf. Masten, 2014).