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Author | : Donald G. Dutton |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2007-05-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0313071497 |
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Chronicling horrific events that brought the 20th century to witness the largest number of systematic slaughters of human beings in any century across history, this work goes beyond historic details and examines contemporary psychological means that leaders use to convince individuals to commit horrific acts in the name of a politial or military cause. Massacres in Nanking, Rwanda, El Salvador, Vietnam, and other countries are reviewed in chilling detail. But the core issue is what psychological forces are behind large- scale killing; what psychology can be used to indoctrinate normal people with a Groupthink that moves individuals to mass murder brutally and without regret, even when the victims are innocent children. Dutton shows us how individuals are convinced to commit such sadistic acts, often preceded by torture, after being indoctrinated with beliefs that the target victims are unjust, inhuman or viral, like a virus that must be destroyed or it will destroy society.
Author | : Steven K. Baum |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2008-05-29 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1139472828 |
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Genocide has tragically claimed the lives of over 262 million victims in the last century. Jews, Armenians, Cambodians, Darfurians, Kosovons, Rwandans, the list seems endless. Clinical psychologist Steven K. Baum sets out to examine the psychological patterns to these atrocities. Building on trait theory as well as social psychology he reanalyzes key conformity studies (including the famous experiments of Ash, Millgram and Zimbardo) to bring forth an understanding of identity and emotional development during genocide. Baum presents a model that demonstrates how people's actions during genocide actually mirror their behaviour in everyday life: there are those who destruct (perpetrators), those who help (rescuers) and those who remain uninvolved, positioning themselves between the two extremes (bystanders). Combining eyewitness accounts with Baum's own analysis, this book reveals the common mental and emotional traits among perpetrators, bystanders and rescuers and how a war between personal and social identity accounts for these divisions.
Author | : Richard Morrock |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2014-01-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0786456280 |
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The twentieth century was one of the most violent in all of human history, with more than 100 million people killed in acts of war and persecution ranging from the Herero and Namaqua genocide in present-day Namibia during the early 1900s to the ongoing conflict in Darfur. This book explores the root causes of genocide, looking into the underlying psychology of violence and oppression. Genocide does not simply occur at the hands of tyrannical despots, but rather at the hands of ordinary citizens whose unresolved pain and oppression forces them to follow a leader whose demagogy best expresses their own long-developed prejudices and fears. The book explains how birth trauma, childhood trauma, and authoritarian education can be seen as the true causes of genocidal periods in recent history.
Author | : Leonard S. Newman |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195133625 |
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When and why do groups target each other for extermination? How do seemingly normal people become participants in genocide? In these essays, social psychologists use the principles derived from contemporary research in their field to try to shed light on the behaviour of perpetrators of genocide.
Author | : James Waller |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2002-06-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0190287527 |
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Political or social groups wanting to commit mass murder on the basis of racial, ethnic or religious differences are never hindered by a lack of willing executioners. In Becoming Evil, social psychologist James Waller uncovers the internal and external factors that can lead ordinary people to commit extraordinary acts of evil. Waller debunks the common explanations for genocide- group think, psychopathology, unique cultures- and offers a more sophisticated and comprehensive psychological view of how anyone can potentially participate in heinous crimes against humanity. He outlines the evolutionary forces that shape human nature, the individual dispositions that are more likely to engage in acts of evil, and the context of cruelty in which these extraordinary acts can emerge. Illustrative eyewitness accounts are presented at the end of each chapter. An important new look at how evil develops, Becoming Evil will help us understand such tragedies as the Holocaust and recent terrorist events. Waller argues that by becoming more aware of the things that lead to extraordinary evil, we will be less likely to be surprised by it and less likely to be unwitting accomplices through our passivity.
Author | : Steven K. Baum |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2008-05-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
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A chilling examination of how genocide divides us into perpetrators, rescuers and bystanders.
Author | : Leonard S. Newman |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : 2019-11-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0190685948 |
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How do otherwise ordinary people become perpetrators of genocide? Why are groups targeted for mass killing? How do groups justify these terrible acts? While there are no easy answers to these questions, social psychologists are especially well positioned to contribute to our understanding of genocide and mass killing. With research targeting key questions -such as how negative impressions of outgroups develop and how social influence can lead people to violate their moral principles and other norms - social psychologists have much to teach us about why groups of people attempt to exterminate other groups, why people participate in such atrocious projects, and how they live with themselves afterwards. By bringing together research previously available only to readers of academic journals, this volume sheds crucial light on human behavior at the extremes and in doing so, helps us take one more step towards preventing future tragedies.
Author | : Robert Jay Lifton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 561 |
Release | : 2000 |
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ISBN | : |
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Author | : Kristen Renwick Monroe |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 453 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691151431 |
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How should Augustine, Plato, Calvin, Kant, Nietzsche, and Bonhoeffer be read today, in light of postcolonial theory and twenty-first-century understandings? This book offers a reader-friendly introduction to Christian liberationist ethics by having scholars "from the margins" explore how questions of race and gender should be brought to bear on twenty-four classic ethicists and philosophers. Each short chapter gives historical background for the thinker, describes that thinker's most important contributions, then raises issues of concern for women and persons of color.
Author | : Robert J. Sternberg |
Publisher | : Amer Psychological Assn |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9781591471844 |
Download The Psychology of Hate Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Hate is among the most powerful of human emotions. This book brings together experts on the psychology of hate to present their diverse viewpoints in a single volume. It provides concrete suggestions for how to combat hate, and attempts to understand the minds both of those who hate and those who are hated.