The The Social Psychology of Good and Evil

Arthur G. Miller, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He received his doctorate in social psychology from Indiana University in 1967 and spent 1979-1980 at Princeton University on a National Institute of Mental Health Fellowship, studying with Ned Jones. Dr. Miller's primary teaching and research interests include stereotyping and stigma, biases in attribution and social judgement, and judgmental reactions to diverse explanations of evil and violence.

Miller, Introduction and Overview. Part 1: Conceptual Perspectives on Good and Evil. Zimbardo, A Situationist Perspective on the Psychology of Evil: Understanding How Good People are Transformed into Perpetrators. Staub, Basic Human Needs, Altruism, and Aggression. Baumeister, Vohs, Four Roots of Evil. Duntley, Buss, The Evolution of Evil. Part 2: Harming Others: Contexts, Causes, and Implications. Fiske, What's in a Category? Responsibility, Intent, and the Avoidability of Bias against Outgroups. Dovidio, Gaertner, Nier, Kawakami, Hodson, Contemporary Racial Bias: When Good People Do Bad Things. Anderson, Carnagey, Violent Evil and the General Aggression Model. Miller, What Can the Milgram Obedience Experiments Tell us about the Holocaust?: Generalizing from the Social Psychology Laboratory. Muehlenhard, Peterson, Conceptualizing Sexual Violence: Socially Acceptable Coercion and Other Controversies. Part 3: The Self-Concept in Relation to Good and Evil Acts. Crocker, Lee, Park, The Pursuit of Self-Esteem: Implications for Good and Evil. DePaulo, The Many Faces of Lies. Tangney, Stuewig, A Moral-Emotional Perspective on Evil Persons and Evil Deeds. Part 4: The Possibilities for Kindness. Batson, Ahmad, Stocks, Benefits and Liabilities of Empathy-Induced Altruism. Eisenberg, Valiente, Champion, Empathy-Related Responding: Moral, Social, and Socialization Correlates. Wills, Resko, Social Support and Behaviour toward Others: Some Paradoxes and Some Directions. Snyder, Omoto, Lindsay, Sacrificing Time and Effort for the Good of Others: The Benefits and Costs of Volunteerism. Aronson, Reducing Hostility and Building Compassion: Lessons from the Jigsaw Classroom.