Michael A Hoffman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3617265 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael A Hoffman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael A |
| FAMILY NAME | Hoffman |
| SIGNATURE | HOFFMAN M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bar-Ilan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Attributions and Responses to the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Coping and Locus of Control
To address the role of maternal coping and control beliefs in the development of coping and locus of control in their adolescent children, 68 yoked pairs of Israeli mothers and their male, seventh- and eighth-grade children completed questionnaires related to coping styles and locus of control. Regression analyses revealed a strong similarity between adolescents' coping profiles and those of their mothers in a manner relecting the hypothesized im…
Gender differences in the relation between stressful life events and adjustment among school-aged children
Innocent bystanders
Basic theoretical paradigms and constructs are identified within the extant literature that may usefully contribute to comprehending the effect of war upon young children as well as the nature of personal, situational, and familial moderating factors. These concerns are illustrated with empirical data regarding infants and toddlers and their response to the recent Gulf War. Potential applications of these heuristic models are explicated for the s…
Moderating effects of adolescent social orientation on the relation between social support and self-esteem
Expectations, Emotions, and Preferred Responses Regarding the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Adapting Weiner's attribution theory, this study examines Israeli Jews' causal attribution for the Arab-Israeli conflict, their expectations and feelings regarding its course, and their preferred strategies of response. Expectations regarding continuation or escalation of conflict were found to be related to the stability dimension. Increased shame and guilt, as well as reduced pride as Israelis and anger toward Arabs, were associated with assign…
Academic Status and Ethnicity as Determinants of Social Acceptance
How academic and ethnic considerations combine in the determination of social acceptance was assessed in a short-term longitudinal study. Most previous research suggests that the influence of these status characteristics should aggregate in an additive fashion. Potential shifts were examined in the use of these characteristics in judgments regarding social acceptance across the school year. Seventh-grade Israeli students (N = 721) entering integr…
Children's vulnerability to stressful life events in mothers' eyes
The impact of stress and coping
Moderating effects of self-esteem on the use of ethnicity and academic standing as determinants of interpersonal acceptance
The halo effect
This paper is in response to Nathan's (1986) critique of Fox, Bizman & Herrmann's (1983) paper ‘The halo effect: Is it a unitary effect’. Specific points raised in Nathan's critique are rebutted. Recent numerical analyses are then employed to demonstrate the non‐equivalence of two extant measures of halo‐SD indices and D × D correlations. The SD indices, challenged by Nathan, are shown to conform with at least one commonly accepted definition of …
The Predynastic of Hierakonpolis
Validating an Attitude toward Computer Scale
Although several investigators have developed computer attitude scales, predictive validity of the scales has not been examined. For purposes of the present research, a computer attitude scale was designed and tested on a group of 162 university freshmen. Two factors, the computer as a controlling device and as a challenging instrument, explained a large portion of the variance in the scale; however, only the challenging factor, with predictive v…
Social support and self-esteem in adolescence
A Preparatory Programme for Passage Into the Ethnically Integrated School
S ummary . It is currently accepted that effective ethnic integration in schools requires supplemental intervention to attain its social and academic goals. The present study evaluated an Israeli preparatory programme addressing the transition into integrated junior high schools. This intensive, one‐week programme of intervention prior to school entrance is aimed at improving school climate and interpersonal relationships between ethnic groups. T…
Moderating effects of educational standing on interethnic relations in the classroom
The Predynastic of Hierakonpolis
Impact of Sociometric Method and Activity Content on Assessment of Intergroup Relations in the Classroom
S ummary . The study compared patteras of ethnic and sex relations revealed by nomination versus rating methods for activities at differing levels of intimacy. Integrated junior high school students in 16 classrooms filled out two versions of the Interpersonal Relationship Assessment Technique treating willingness to engage in activities of low, moderate, and high intimacy. In the peer nomination version, students identified three classmates most…
Egypt before the Pharaohs
Carry‐over of contact effects from acquainted to unacquainted targets
This study assesses the degree to which changes in inter‐ethnic acceptance, due to contact under integration, generalize to one's views of unknown or stereotypic group members. Subjects consisted of 2,530 seventh‐, eighth‐, and ninth‐grade Western and Middle‐Eastern students in integrated Israeli junior high schools. A unidimensional scale was employed to measure willingness to engage in activities of varying degrees of intimacy with acquainted c…
Social behavior of urban and kibbutz preschool children in Israel
Social Behaviour of Hearing‐impaired and Normally‐hearing Preschoolers
S ummary . The relationship between social behaviour and hearing loss was studied in Israeli preschool‐age children. Free play interactions were observed in mainstreamed settings among 36 children with varying degrees of hearing loss (severe loss, profound loss) and normal hearing. Social competence and hearing impairment were inversely related: the profoundly impaired were markedly less skilful than the normal hearing, while the severely impaire…
A Geochemical Approach to the Understanding of Ceramic Technology in Predynastic Egypt
L'Elkabien, Epipaléolithique de la Vallée du Nil Égyptien
Egypt before the Pharoahs
Social support and self-esteem in adolescence
The impact of stress and coping
The Social Context of Trash Disposal in an Early Dynastic Egyptian Town
The study of trash, although long in the forefront of actual archaeological research, has seldom been conducted in such a way as to emphasize the social and cultural context of the rules governing trash disposal. Evidence from the Early Dynastic town site of Hierakonpolis in Upper Egypt is used to support the contention that a knowledge of human patterns of trash disposal can be a valuable tool in the study of the composition and functioning of '…
Gender differences in the relation between stressful life events and adjustment among school-aged children
Expectations, Emotions, and Preferred Responses Regarding the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Adapting Weiner's attribution theory, this study examines Israeli Jews' causal attribution for the Arab-Israeli conflict, their expectations and feelings regarding its course, and their preferred strategies of response. Expectations regarding continuation or escalation of conflict were found to be related to the stability dimension. Increased shame and guilt, as well as reduced pride as Israelis and anger toward Arabs, were associated with assign…
Impact of Sociometric Method and Activity Content on Assessment of Intergroup Relations in the Classroom
S ummary . The study compared patteras of ethnic and sex relations revealed by nomination versus rating methods for activities at differing levels of intimacy. Integrated junior high school students in 16 classrooms filled out two versions of the Interpersonal Relationship Assessment Technique treating willingness to engage in activities of low, moderate, and high intimacy. In the peer nomination version, students identified three classmates most…
A Geochemical Approach to the Understanding of Ceramic Technology in Predynastic Egypt
Moderating effects of adolescent social orientation on the relation between social support and self-esteem
Moderating effects of educational standing on interethnic relations in the classroom
Social behavior of urban and kibbutz preschool children in Israel
A Rectangular Amratian House from Hierakonpolis and Its Significance for Predynastic Research
The History of Anthropology Revisited-A Byzantine Viewpoint
This article maintains that an unwarranted extension ofour ideas about the Western European Medieval world has led to several problems in many recent treatments of the historical emergence ofanthropological inquiry. Utilizing Byzantine sources, it suggests that the postulated Medieval break in the Western intellectual tradition is non-existent and the result of an over-emphasis on Western European developments at the expense of the larger socio-c…
Process and Tradition in Cypriot Culture History
In the following pages the author proposes a series of time-specific theoretical models as a means of interpreting and understanding the culture history of the Greek tradition on Cyprus. As a means of conceptualizing the roles of time itself as a significant variable in determining and explaining aspects of social structure, socio-cultural time is divided into three heuristic categories: (1) Synchronic Time (of perhaps a few years or less duratio…
Coping and Locus of Control
To address the role of maternal coping and control beliefs in the development of coping and locus of control in their adolescent children, 68 yoked pairs of Israeli mothers and their male, seventh- and eighth-grade children completed questionnaires related to coping styles and locus of control. Regression analyses revealed a strong similarity between adolescents' coping profiles and those of their mothers in a manner relecting the hypothesized im…
Academic Status and Ethnicity as Determinants of Social Acceptance
How academic and ethnic considerations combine in the determination of social acceptance was assessed in a short-term longitudinal study. Most previous research suggests that the influence of these status characteristics should aggregate in an additive fashion. Potential shifts were examined in the use of these characteristics in judgments regarding social acceptance across the school year. Seventh-grade Israeli students (N = 721) entering integr…
Moderating effects of self-esteem on the use of ethnicity and academic standing as determinants of interpersonal acceptance
A Preparatory Programme for Passage Into the Ethnically Integrated School
S ummary . It is currently accepted that effective ethnic integration in schools requires supplemental intervention to attain its social and academic goals. The present study evaluated an Israeli preparatory programme addressing the transition into integrated junior high schools. This intensive, one‐week programme of intervention prior to school entrance is aimed at improving school climate and interpersonal relationships between ethnic groups. T…
Carry‐over of contact effects from acquainted to unacquainted targets
This study assesses the degree to which changes in inter‐ethnic acceptance, due to contact under integration, generalize to one's views of unknown or stereotypic group members. Subjects consisted of 2,530 seventh‐, eighth‐, and ninth‐grade Western and Middle‐Eastern students in integrated Israeli junior high schools. A unidimensional scale was employed to measure willingness to engage in activities of varying degrees of intimacy with acquainted c…
Social Behaviour of Hearing‐impaired and Normally‐hearing Preschoolers
S ummary . The relationship between social behaviour and hearing loss was studied in Israeli preschool‐age children. Free play interactions were observed in mainstreamed settings among 36 children with varying degrees of hearing loss (severe loss, profound loss) and normal hearing. Social competence and hearing impairment were inversely related: the profoundly impaired were markedly less skilful than the normal hearing, while the severely impaire…
Preliminary Report on the First Two Seasons at Hierakonpolis
Locality 14 lies on the eastern bank of the Great Wadi between bays V and VI about 1 mile from the present border of cultivation (Part I, Figure 1). The site, like other Predynastic localities in the vicinity, rests on Pleistocene alluvial silts and stands about 10 feet above the present floor of the Great Wadi. The area today is almost totally devoid of vegetation, and the rugged hills of Nubian sandstone which bound the site to the East heighte…
Preliminary Report on the First Two Seasons at Hierakonpolis
Michael Hoffman, Preliminary Report on the First Two Seasons at Hierakonpolis: Part III: Occupational features at the Kom El AḤMAR, Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, Vol. 9 (1971-1972), pp. 35-47
Preliminary Report on the First Two Seasons at Hierakonpolis
Locality 14 lies on the eastern bank of the Great Wadi between bays V and VI about 1 mile from the present border of cultivation (Part I, Figure 1). The site, like other Predynastic localities in the vicinity, rests on Pleistocene alluvial silts and stands about 10 feet above the present floor of the Great Wadi. The area today is almost totally devoid of vegetation, and the rugged hills of Nubian sandstone which bound the site to the East heighte…
Preliminary Report on the First Two Seasons at Hierakonpolis
Michael Hoffman, Preliminary Report on the First Two Seasons at Hierakonpolis: Part III: Occupational features at the Kom El AḤMAR, Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, Vol. 9 (1971-1972), pp. 35-47
Process and Tradition in Cypriot Culture History
In the following pages the author proposes a series of time-specific theoretical models as a means of interpreting and understanding the culture history of the Greek tradition on Cyprus. As a means of conceptualizing the roles of time itself as a significant variable in determining and explaining aspects of social structure, socio-cultural time is divided into three heuristic categories: (1) Synchronic Time (of perhaps a few years or less duratio…
The History of Anthropology Revisited-A Byzantine Viewpoint
This article maintains that an unwarranted extension ofour ideas about the Western European Medieval world has led to several problems in many recent treatments of the historical emergence ofanthropological inquiry. Utilizing Byzantine sources, it suggests that the postulated Medieval break in the Western intellectual tradition is non-existent and the result of an over-emphasis on Western European developments at the expense of the larger socio-c…
The Social Context of Trash Disposal in an Early Dynastic Egyptian Town
The study of trash, although long in the forefront of actual archaeological research, has seldom been conducted in such a way as to emphasize the social and cultural context of the rules governing trash disposal. Evidence from the Early Dynastic town site of Hierakonpolis in Upper Egypt is used to support the contention that a knowledge of human patterns of trash disposal can be a valuable tool in the study of the composition and functioning of '…
Egypt Before the Pharaohs
A Rectangular Amratian House from Hierakonpolis and Its Significance for Predynastic Research
Egypt before the Pharoahs
Egypt before the Pharaohs
A Geochemical Approach to the Understanding of Ceramic Technology in Predynastic Egypt
L'Elkabien, Epipaléolithique de la Vallée du Nil Égyptien
Egypt before the Pharaohs
Carry‐over of contact effects from acquainted to unacquainted targets
This study assesses the degree to which changes in inter‐ethnic acceptance, due to contact under integration, generalize to one's views of unknown or stereotypic group members. Subjects consisted of 2,530 seventh‐, eighth‐, and ninth‐grade Western and Middle‐Eastern students in integrated Israeli junior high schools. A unidimensional scale was employed to measure willingness to engage in activities of varying degrees of intimacy with acquainted c…
Social behavior of urban and kibbutz preschool children in Israel
Social Behaviour of Hearing‐impaired and Normally‐hearing Preschoolers
S ummary . The relationship between social behaviour and hearing loss was studied in Israeli preschool‐age children. Free play interactions were observed in mainstreamed settings among 36 children with varying degrees of hearing loss (severe loss, profound loss) and normal hearing. Social competence and hearing impairment were inversely related: the profoundly impaired were markedly less skilful than the normal hearing, while the severely impaire…
Impact of Sociometric Method and Activity Content on Assessment of Intergroup Relations in the Classroom
S ummary . The study compared patteras of ethnic and sex relations revealed by nomination versus rating methods for activities at differing levels of intimacy. Integrated junior high school students in 16 classrooms filled out two versions of the Interpersonal Relationship Assessment Technique treating willingness to engage in activities of low, moderate, and high intimacy. In the peer nomination version, students identified three classmates most…
Moderating effects of educational standing on interethnic relations in the classroom
The Predynastic of Hierakonpolis
The Predynastic of Hierakonpolis
Validating an Attitude toward Computer Scale
Although several investigators have developed computer attitude scales, predictive validity of the scales has not been examined. For purposes of the present research, a computer attitude scale was designed and tested on a group of 162 university freshmen. Two factors, the computer as a controlling device and as a challenging instrument, explained a large portion of the variance in the scale; however, only the challenging factor, with predictive v…
Social support and self-esteem in adolescence
A Preparatory Programme for Passage Into the Ethnically Integrated School
S ummary . It is currently accepted that effective ethnic integration in schools requires supplemental intervention to attain its social and academic goals. The present study evaluated an Israeli preparatory programme addressing the transition into integrated junior high schools. This intensive, one‐week programme of intervention prior to school entrance is aimed at improving school climate and interpersonal relationships between ethnic groups. T…
The halo effect
This paper is in response to Nathan's (1986) critique of Fox, Bizman & Herrmann's (1983) paper ‘The halo effect: Is it a unitary effect’. Specific points raised in Nathan's critique are rebutted. Recent numerical analyses are then employed to demonstrate the non‐equivalence of two extant measures of halo‐SD indices and D × D correlations. The SD indices, challenged by Nathan, are shown to conform with at least one commonly accepted definition of …
Children's vulnerability to stressful life events in mothers' eyes
The impact of stress and coping
Psychology (19 works) · Developmental psychology (16 works) · Social Psychology (16 works) · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (12 works) · History (11 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Archaeology (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (7 works)