| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 255 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Charlotte's question -- A bell curve of hate? -- Perpetrators -- Bystanders -- Rescuers -- Towards an emotionally developed world |
| Summary |
"Genocide has tragically claimed the lives of over 262 million victims in the last century. Jews, Armenians, Cambodians, Darfurians, Kosovars, 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, Milgram, and Zimbardo) to bring forth a new understanding of identity and emotional development during genocide. Baum presents a model that demonstrates how people's actions during genocide actually mirror their behavior in everyday life: there are those who destroy (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."--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed April 9, 2019) |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Genocide.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Demography.
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Genocide
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Völkermord
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Psychologie
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780511409127 |
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0511409125 |
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9780511410185 |
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0511410182 |
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9780511819278 |
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0511819277 |
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9780511406423 |
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0511406428 |
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9780511408311 |
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0511408315 |
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