Confronting Humanity at its Worst

Social Psychological Perspectives on Genocide

Buch | Hardcover

372 Seiten

2019
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-068594-2 (ISBN)

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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.

Leonard S. Newman earned his PhD in social-personality psychology at New York University. He is an associate professor at Syracuse University, where he serves as Associate Chair of the psychology department. Dr. Newman is co-editor of Understanding Genocide: The Social Psychology of the Holocaust and co-author of Social Psychology: A Storytelling Approach (both with Ralph Erber). His research interests include social stigma, dehumanization, psychological defense, and public perceptions of psychological research.

Acknowledgements

PART 1: Lighting the Fuse: Psychological and Emotional Predispositions For Extreme Intergroup Violence

Chapter 1: Genocide and the Male Warrior Psychology
Adam Tratner and Melissa McDonald

Chapter 2: Obedient authoritarians or lay Darwinists? Ideological motivations of genocide
Micha? Bilewicz

Chapter 3: How Envy Can Incite Anti-Semitism and Genocide
Richard H. Smith and Charles E. Hoogland

PART 2: The Genocidal Mindset

Chapter 4: Emotional Sources of Intergroup Atrocities
Michael J. A. Wohl, Nassim Tabri, and Eran Halperin

Chapter 5: The many roles of dehumanization in genocide
Nick Haslam

Chapter 6: Moral Courage and Moral Disregard: Different Sides of the Same Coin?
Allison B. Mueller and Linda J. Skitka

Chapter 7: Understanding Intergroup Violence and Its Aftermath From Perpetrator and Victim Perspectives
Mengyao Li and Bernhard Leidner

PART 3: Evil is Not Inevitable: New Perspectives on Obedience and Social Influence

Chapter 8: Engaged Followership and Engaged Fellowship: Towards a Unified Analysis of Harm-doing and Helping
Stephen D. Reicher and S. Alexander Haslam

Chapter 9: In what way is evil 'banal'? Hanna Arendt's (interactionist) thesis
Leonard S. Newman

PART 4: Never Again, Never Forget, Never Forgive, or Never Mind: The Aftermath of Extreme Intergroup Violence

Chapter 10: The Aftermath of Genocide: Divergent Social Psychological Processes among Victim and Perpetrator Groups
Johanna Ray Vollhardt and Michelle Sinayobye Twali

Chapter 11: Understanding and Counteracting Genocide Denial
Rezarta Bilali, Yeshim Iqbal, and Samuel Freel

Chapter 12: Why do people become perpetrators of genocide? The dangers of explanation
Ying Tang and Leonard S. Newman

Erscheinungsdatum	07.11.2019
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	236 x 155 mm
Gewicht	680 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	0-19-068594-8 / 0190685948
ISBN-13	978-0-19-068594-2 / 9780190685942
Zustand	Neuware