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Title Understanding genocide : the social psychology of the Holocaust / edited by Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

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 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  940.5318 UNDERSTANDING    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  940.5318 U55U    Check Shelf
Description xi, 360 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Introduction / Christopher R. Browning -- Pt.1 Becoming a perpetrator : The psychology of bystanders, perpetrators, and heroic helpers / Ervin Staub -- What is a "social-psychological" account of perpetrator behavior? The person versus the situation in Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners / Leonard S. Newman -- Authoritarianism and the Holocaust : some cognitive and affective implications / Peter Suedfeld, Mark Schaller -- Perpetrator behavior as destructive obedience : an evaluation of Stanley Milgram's perspective, the most influential social-psychological approach to the Holocaust / Thomas Blass.
Pt.2 Beyond the individual, groups and collectives : Sacrifical lambs dressed in wolves' clothing : envious prejudice, ideology, and the scapegoating of Jews / Peter Glick -- Group processes and the Holocaust / R. Scott Tindale, Catherine Munier, Michelle Wasserman, Christine M. Smith -- Examining the implications of cultural frames on social movements and group action / Daphna Oyserman, Armand Lauffer -- Population and predators : preconditions for the Holocaust from a control-theoretical perspective / Dieter Frey, Helmut Rez -- The zoomorphism of human collective violence / R.B. Zajonc.
Pt.3 Dealing with evil : The Holocaust and the four roots of evil / Roy F. Baumeister -- Instigators of genocide : examining Hitler from a social-psychological perspective / David R. Mandel -- Perpetrators with a clear conscience : lying self-deception and belief change / Ralph Erber -- Explaining the Holocaust : does social psychology exonerate the perpetrators? / Arthur G. Miller, Amy M. Buddie, Jeffrey Kretschmar -- Epilogue : social psychologists confront the Holocaust / Leonard S. Newman, Ralph Erber.
Subject Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Social aspects.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Psychological aspects.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence.
Social sciences -- Philosophy.
Added Author Newman, Leonard S., 1961-
Erber, Ralph.
ISBN 0195133625 alkaline paper
9780195133622 alkaline paper
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