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Empathy and Moral Development: Implications for Caring and Justice » (1st Edition)

Authors: Martin L. Hoffman
ISBN-13: 9780521012973, ISBN-10: 052101297X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: November 2001
Edition: 1st Edition

The culmination of three decades of study and research in the area of child and developmental psychology.

	Acknowledgments	ix
1	Introduction and Overview	1
Part I	Innocent Bystander
2	Empathy, Its Arousal, and Prosocial Functioning	29
3	Development of Empathic Distress	63
4	Empathic Anger, Sympathy, Guilt, Feeling of Injustice	93
Part II	Transgression
5	Guilt and Moral Internalization	113
6	From Discipline to Internalization	140
Part III	Virtual Transgression
7	Relationship Guilt and Other Virtual Guilts	175
Part IV	Is Empathy Enough?
8	Empathy's Limitations: Over-Arousal and Bias	197
Part V	Empathy and Moral Principles
9	Interaction and Bonding of Empathy and Moral Principles	221
10	Development of Empathy-Based Justice Principles	250
11	Multiple-Claimant and Caring-Versus-Justice Dilemmas	263
Part VI	Culture
12	The Universality and Culture Issue	273
Part VII	Intervention
13	Implications for Socialization and Moral Education	287
	References	299
	Author Index	319
	Subject Index	325