Understanding Genocide

Abstract

Foreword Part I: Becoming a Perpetrator 1. The Psychology of Bystanders, Perpetrators, and Heroic Helpers 2. What is a 'Social-Psychological' Account of Perpetrator Behaviour? The Person Versus the Situation in Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners 3. Authoritarianism and the Holocaust: Some Cognitive and Affective Implications 4. Perpetrator Behaviour as Destructive Obedience: An Evaluation of Stanley Milgram's Perspective, the Most Influential Social-Psychological Approach to the Holocaust Part II: Beyond the Individual: Groups and Collectives 5. Sacrifice Lambs Dressed in Wolves' Clothing: Envious Prejudice, Ideology, and the Scapegoating of Jews 6. Group Processes and the Holocaust 7. Examining the Implications of Cultural Frames on Social Movements and Group Action 8. Population and Predators: Preconditions for the Holocaust from a Control-Theoretical Perspective 9. The Zoomorphism of Human Collective Violence Part III: Dealing with Evil 10. The Holocaust and the Four Roots of Evil 11. Instigators of Genocide: Examining Hitler from a Social Psychological Perspective 12. Perpetrators with a Clear Conscience: Lying Self-Deception and Belief Change 13. Explaining the Holocaust: Does Social Psychology Exonerate the Perpetrators? 14. Epilogue: Social Psychologists Confront the Holocaust