Psychology of Genocide Perpetrators, Bystanders, and Rescuers

Name: Psychology of Genocide Perpetrators, Bystanders, and Rescuers
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ISBN: 9780521713924

ISBN-10: 0521713927

ISBN-13: 9780521713924

Edition: 2008

Authors: Steven K. Baum

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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 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 a new understanding of identity and emotional development during genocide. Baum presents a model that demonstrates how peoples actions during genocide actually mirror their behaviour in everyday life: there are those who destruct (perpetrators),…

Book details

List price: $40.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 5/29/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 268
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Introduction


Prologue



Charlottes question



A bell curve of hate?



Perpetrators



Bystanders



Rescuers



Towards an emotionally developed world