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Book 2007

Understanding Genocide

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Language
English
Published
2007
  • Nonfiction
  • Psychology

Foreword: Peter Browning (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)PART I - Becoming a Perpetrator 1. "The Psychology of Bystanders, Perpetrators, and Heroic Helpers", Ervin Staub (University of Massachusetts - Amherst)2. "What is a 'Social-Psychological' Account of Perpetrator Behavior? The Person Versus the Situation in Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners", Leonard S. Newman (University of Illinois at Chicago)3. "Authoritarianism and the Holocaust: Some Cognitive and Affective Implications", Peter Suedfeld and Mark Schaller (University of British Columbia)4. "Perpetrator Behavior as Destructive Obedience: An Evaluation of Stanley Milgram's Perspective, the Most Influential Social-Psychological Approach to the Holocaust", Thomas Blass (University of Maryland Baltimore County)PART II Beyond the Individual: Groups and Collectives ...