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Empathy and Moral Development

Implications for Caring and Justice

Bibliographic Data

ID23399149
AuthorsMartin L Hoffman (New York University, corresponding author)
Year2000
Publication date2000-04-13
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
Reviewed byEmpathy and Moral Development: Implications for Caring and Justice, Zora Raboteg-Šarić, 2001
VenueEmpathy and Moral Development (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511805851
OpenAlexW4247442712
Open LibraryOL34476496M
ISBN9780511805851
LanguageEN
Citations received1.152

Contemporary theories have generally focused on either the behavioral, cognitive or emotional dimensions of prosocial moral development. In this volume, these three dimensions are brought together while providing the first comprehensive account of prosocial moral development in children. The main concept is empathy - one feels what is appropriate for another person's situation, not one's own. Hoffman discusses empathy's role in five moral situations. The book's focus is empathy's contribution to altruism and compassion for others in physical, psychological, or economic distress. Also highlighted are the psychological processes involved in empathy's interaction with certain parental behaviors that foster moral internalization in children and the psychological processes involved in empathy's relation to abstract moral principles such as caring and distributive justice. This important book is the culmination of three decades of study and research by a leading figure in the area of child and developmental psychology.

Altruism (biology) · Compassion · Developmental psychology · Empathy · Moral development · Moral disengagement · Moral reasoning · Personal distress · Prosocial behavior · Simulation theory of empathy · Social cognitive theory of morality · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Psychology · Social Psychology · Caring · Justice

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