Martin L. Hoffman (New York University)

Empathy and Moral Development

Implications for Caring and Justice

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The main concept is empathy - one feels what is appropriate for another person's situation, not one's own. 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 514g
• ISBN-13: 9780521012973
• ISBN-10: 052101297X
• Artikelnr.: 21513289

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction and overview
2. Empathy, its arousal and prosocial functioning
3. Development of empathic distress
4. Empathic anger, sympathy, guilt, feeling of injustice
5. Guilt and moral internalization
6. From discipline to internalization
7. Relationship and other virtual guilts
8. Empathy's limitations: is empathy enough? 9. Empathy and moral principles
10. Development of empathy-based justice principles
11. Multiple- claimant and caring-versus-justice dilemmas
12. The universality and culture issue
13. Implications for intervention.