Martin Hoffman
{{Short description|American psychologist}}
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Martin L. Hoffman was an American psychologist and a professor emeritus of clinical and developmental psychology at New York University.[http://www.psych.nyu.edu/hoffman/ Faculty profile] at NYU.
In his career, Hoffman is primarily focused on development of empathy and its relationship with moral development,{{citation|title=Scientists Mull Role of Empathy In Man and Beast|first=Natalie|last=Angier|journal=New York Times|date=May 9, 1995|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/09/science/scientists-mull-role-of-empathy-in-man-and-beast.html?pagewanted=all}}. which he defines as "people's consideration for others."{{Cite book|last=Hoffman|first=Martin L.|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9780511805851/type/book|title=Empathy and Moral Development: Implications for Caring and Justice|date=2000-04-13|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-58034-2|edition=1|doi=10.1017/cbo9780511805851}} His research also touches on areas such as empathic anger, sympathy, guilt and feelings of injustice.
Hoffman did his undergraduate studies at Purdue University, receiving a B.S. in electrical engineering in 1945. He earned a master's degree in psychology at the University of Michigan in 1947 and a PhD in social psychology at the University of Michigan in 1951. In the 1960s, he became editor of the Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, and oversaw its conversion from a newsletter to an academic journal.{{citation|title=Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Merrill-Palmer Quarterly|journal=Merrill-Palmer Quarterly|year=2004|url=http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-751409/Celebrating-the-50th-anniversary-of.html}}.
He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association, and the American Psychological Society.
Books
- {{cite book |last1=Hoffman |first1=Martin L. |title=Empathy and Moral Development: Implications for Caring and Justice |date=2000 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=9780511805851 |doi=10.1017/CBO9780511805851 }}Reviews of Empathy and Moral Development: Implications for Caring and Justice:
- {{citation|last1=Eisenberg|first1=Nancy|last2=Morris|first2=Amanda Sheffield|date=March 2001|doi=10.1023/a:1012579805721|issue=1|journal=Social Justice Research|pages=95–120|title=none|volume=14|s2cid=143294939}}
- {{citation|last1=Stilwell|first1=Barbara M.|last2=Thomas|first2=Christopher R.|date=May 2001|doi=10.1097/00004583-200105000-00026|issue=5|journal=Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry|pages=614–615|title=none|volume=40}}
- {{citation|last=Raboteg-Šarić|first=Zora|date=September 2001|doi=10.2307/3089337|issue=5|journal=Contemporary Sociology|jstor=3089337|pages=487–488|title=none|volume=30}}
- {{citation|last=Spiecker|first=Ben|issue=3|journal=Pedagogiek|pages=283–285|title=Review|volume=21|year=2002|hdl=1874/187699}}
- {{citation|last=Wren|first=Thomas E.|date=January 2003|doi=10.1086/343014|issue=2|journal=Ethics|jstor=10.1086/343014|pages=417–419|title=none|volume=113|s2cid=151464729}}
- {{citation|last=Vogt|first=Lori Ann|date=March 2003|issue=2|journal=The Canadian Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Review|pages=46–47|pmc=2538478|title=none|volume=12}}
- {{citation|last=Rottschaefer|first=William A.|date=September 2004|issue=3|journal=Journal of Moral Education|pages=385–387|title=Review|volume=33|hdl=10822/988141}}
- {{citation|last=Moomey|first=Andrea J.|date=Fall 2005|issue=4|journal=Journal of Church and State|jstor=23920974|pages=863–864|title=none|volume=47|doi=10.1093/jcs/47.4.863}}
- {{citation|last=Fernández|first=Benjamín Reyes|date=February 2011|doi=10.15517/ap.v20i107.40|issue=107|journal=Actualidades en Psicología|page=141|publisher=Universidad de Costa Rica|title=none|volume=20|doi-access=free|hdl=10669/12626|hdl-access=free}}
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