Lia Beatriz de Lucca Freitas

Lia Beatriz de Lucca Freitas is a Professor of Psychology at the Institute of Psychology at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. She gained her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of São Paulo. Her main interests are in moral development, specifically moral virtues and the construction of values. She has authored The Theory of Morality in Jean Piaget's Work: An Unfinished Project (2003) and co-edited Reflections on Moral Education (2017), both published in Portuguese. She...See more

Lia Beatriz de Lucca Freitas is a Professor of Psychology at the Institute of Psychology at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. She gained her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of São Paulo. Her main interests are in moral development, specifically moral virtues and the construction of values. She has authored The Theory of Morality in Jean Piaget's Work: An Unfinished Project (2003) and co-edited Reflections on Moral Education (2017), both published in Portuguese. She is a Co-Principle Investigator on a multi-year cross-cultural project on the development of gratitude in children and adolescents, funded by the John Templeton Foundation. See less