The task group report presented in this publication is one of a series prepared by eminent psychologists who have served as consultants in the U.S. Office of Education-sponsored grant study to conduct a Critical Appraisal of the Personality-Emotions-Motivation Domain. In order to achieve the goal of identifying important problems and areas for new research and methodological issues related to them, an approach was followed in which leading investigators in specialized areas were enlisted as members of task groups and asked to reflect on their current knowledge of ongoing research and to identify the research needs in their respective areas. The articles in this publication are: (1) Child Socialization; An Overview (Gorsuch); (2) A Social Learning Perspective (Parke); (3) Research Directions in the Study of Moral Development and Moral Education (Turiel and Kohlberg); (4) Socialization of Moral Values and Behavior (Mussen); and (5) A New Theoretical Perspective for Research on Human Development (Bronfenbrenner). (Author)