Martin L. Hoffman was an American psychologist and a professor emeritus of clinical and developmental psychology at New York University.
"[3] His research also touches on areas such as empathic anger, sympathy, guilt and feelings of injustice.
[1] Hoffman did his undergraduate studies at Purdue University, receiving a B.S.
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.
[1] In the 1960s, he became editor of the Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, and oversaw its conversion from a newsletter to an academic journal.