The psychology of good and evil : why children, adults, and groups help and harm others /
Staub, Ervin.
The psychology of good and evil : why children, adults, and groups help and harm others / Ervin Staub. - Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003. - 1 online resource (xvi, 592 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Good and evil : themes and overview -- Studying the pivotal role of bystanders / Studying and promoting altruism and studying and working to prevent genocide : the guiding role of early survival -- Is evil a useful concept for psychologists and others? -- Basic human needs and their role in altruism and aggression -- Helping a distressed person : social, personality, and stimulus determinants -- Spontaneous (or impulsive) helping -- Social and prosocial behavior : personal and situational influences and their interactions -- The power to help others : report on a psychology today survey on values, helping, and well-being -- The origins of caring, helping, and nonaggression : parental socialization, the family system, and cultural influence -- Natural socialization : the role of experience or learning by doing -- The origins of hostility and aggression -- Cultural-societal roots of violence : youth violence -- Bystanders and bullying -- Students' experience of bullying and other aspects of their lives in middle school in belchertown : report summary / Passive and active bystandership across grades in response to students bullying other students / Self-esteem and aggression -- Father-daughter incest -- Reducing boys' aggression : learning to fulfill basic needs constructively / Creating caring schools : design and content of a program to develop caring, helping, positive self-esteem, and nonviolence -- A note on the cultural-societal roots of violence -- The psychology of bystanders, perpetrators, and heroic helpers -- Steps along a continuum of destruction : perpetrators and bystanders -- The ss and the psychology of perpetrators : the interweaving and merging of role and person -- The origins of genocide : Rwanda -- Bystanders as evil : the example of rwanda -- Individual and group identities in genocide and mass killing -- Mass murder : u.s. involvement as perpetrator, passive bystander, helper -- When instigation does not result in mass murder -- Persian gulf conflict was reflection of stormy undercurrents in u.s. psyche -- Mob violence : cultural-societal sources, instigators, group processes, and participants / Understanding and preventing police violence -- Preventing group violence -- Kosovo : the need for flexible bystander response -- The effects of violence on groups and their members -- Healing, reconciliation, and forgiving after genocide and other collective violence / Healing, forgiveness, and reconciliation in Rwanda : project summary and outcome, with addendum on other projects / Further avenues to prevention -- Human destructiveness and the refugee experience -- A vision of holocaust education in holocaust centers and schools -- Out of hiding -- Review of legacy of silence : encounters with children of the Third Reich -- What can we learn from this tragedy? : a reaction days after September 11, 2001 -- Changing cultures and society -- Transforming the bystanders : altruism, caring, and social responsibility -- Blind versus constructive patriotism : moving from embeddedness in the group to critical loyalty and action -- Manifestations of blind and constructive patriotism : summary of findings / The ideal university in the real world -- Creating caring societies -- Daniel Goleman -- Ervin Staub, Darren A. Spielman -- Ervin Staub, D. Fellner, Jr., J. Berry, K. Morange -- Darren A. Spielman, Ervin Staub -- Ervin Staub, Lori H. Rosenthal -- Ervin Staub, Laurie Anne Pearlman -- Ervin Staub, Laurie Anne Pearlman -- Ervin Staub, Robert Schatz -- Part I. Introduction and Core Concepts -- Part II. The Roots of Helping Other People in Need in Contrast to Passivity -- Part III. How Children Become Caring and Helpful Rather Than Hostile and Aggressive -- Part IV. The Origins of Genocide, Mass Killing, and Other Collective Violence -- Part V. The Aftermath of Mass Violence : Trauma, Healing, Prevention, and Reconciliation -- Commentary : Part VI. Creating Caring, Morally Inclusive, Peaceful Societies -- Conclusion : App. what are your values and goals?
"This book gathers together the knowledge gained in a lifelong study of the causes of goodness and evil. Since the 1960s Ervin Staub has studied the roots of helpful, caring, generous, and altruistic behavior in adults and their development in children, as well as passivity in response to others' need. He has also studied bullying and victimization in schools, as well as youth violence and its prevention. He spent many years studying the origins (and prevention) of human destructiveness, genocide, and mass killing, and he has examined the Holocaust, the genocide of the Armenians, the disappearances in Argentina, the genocide in Rwanda, and other instances. He has applied his work in many real-world settings, in seminars, workshops, lectures, and in consultations with parents and teachers, police officers, and political leaders. He has appeared frequently in the media, since September 11 especially, to explain the causes and prevention of terrorism. Professor Staub has published, in addition to books, many articles and book chapters on these topics. A selection from these is gathered, with new writings added, in The Psychology of Good and Evil. The book presents a broad panorama of the roots of violence and caring and suggests how we can create societies and a world that are caring, peaceful, and harmonious. Two of the important themes of the book are how both evil and goodness evolve, step by step, and the great power of bystanders."--Jacket
0511061854 9780511061851 0511181043 9780511181047 9780511615795 0511615795 9786610430864 6610430861
CUP EBA
Good and evil--Psychological aspects.
Social psychology.
Psychology, Social
Aggression--psychology
Morals
Violence--psychology
Bien--Aspect psychologique.
Psychologie sociale.
social psychology.
PSYCHOLOGY--Personality.
Social psychology
Good and evil--Psychological aspects
Das Gute
Das Böse
Psychologie
Goed en kwaad.
Altruïsme.
Vertrouwen.
Groepsdynamica.
Genocide.
Ontwikkelingspsychologie.
BF789.E94 / S83 2003eb
155.2/32
2003 K-545 HM 1111 / S798p 2003
The psychology of good and evil : why children, adults, and groups help and harm others / Ervin Staub. - Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003. - 1 online resource (xvi, 592 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Good and evil : themes and overview -- Studying the pivotal role of bystanders / Studying and promoting altruism and studying and working to prevent genocide : the guiding role of early survival -- Is evil a useful concept for psychologists and others? -- Basic human needs and their role in altruism and aggression -- Helping a distressed person : social, personality, and stimulus determinants -- Spontaneous (or impulsive) helping -- Social and prosocial behavior : personal and situational influences and their interactions -- The power to help others : report on a psychology today survey on values, helping, and well-being -- The origins of caring, helping, and nonaggression : parental socialization, the family system, and cultural influence -- Natural socialization : the role of experience or learning by doing -- The origins of hostility and aggression -- Cultural-societal roots of violence : youth violence -- Bystanders and bullying -- Students' experience of bullying and other aspects of their lives in middle school in belchertown : report summary / Passive and active bystandership across grades in response to students bullying other students / Self-esteem and aggression -- Father-daughter incest -- Reducing boys' aggression : learning to fulfill basic needs constructively / Creating caring schools : design and content of a program to develop caring, helping, positive self-esteem, and nonviolence -- A note on the cultural-societal roots of violence -- The psychology of bystanders, perpetrators, and heroic helpers -- Steps along a continuum of destruction : perpetrators and bystanders -- The ss and the psychology of perpetrators : the interweaving and merging of role and person -- The origins of genocide : Rwanda -- Bystanders as evil : the example of rwanda -- Individual and group identities in genocide and mass killing -- Mass murder : u.s. involvement as perpetrator, passive bystander, helper -- When instigation does not result in mass murder -- Persian gulf conflict was reflection of stormy undercurrents in u.s. psyche -- Mob violence : cultural-societal sources, instigators, group processes, and participants / Understanding and preventing police violence -- Preventing group violence -- Kosovo : the need for flexible bystander response -- The effects of violence on groups and their members -- Healing, reconciliation, and forgiving after genocide and other collective violence / Healing, forgiveness, and reconciliation in Rwanda : project summary and outcome, with addendum on other projects / Further avenues to prevention -- Human destructiveness and the refugee experience -- A vision of holocaust education in holocaust centers and schools -- Out of hiding -- Review of legacy of silence : encounters with children of the Third Reich -- What can we learn from this tragedy? : a reaction days after September 11, 2001 -- Changing cultures and society -- Transforming the bystanders : altruism, caring, and social responsibility -- Blind versus constructive patriotism : moving from embeddedness in the group to critical loyalty and action -- Manifestations of blind and constructive patriotism : summary of findings / The ideal university in the real world -- Creating caring societies -- Daniel Goleman -- Ervin Staub, Darren A. Spielman -- Ervin Staub, D. Fellner, Jr., J. Berry, K. Morange -- Darren A. Spielman, Ervin Staub -- Ervin Staub, Lori H. Rosenthal -- Ervin Staub, Laurie Anne Pearlman -- Ervin Staub, Laurie Anne Pearlman -- Ervin Staub, Robert Schatz -- Part I. Introduction and Core Concepts -- Part II. The Roots of Helping Other People in Need in Contrast to Passivity -- Part III. How Children Become Caring and Helpful Rather Than Hostile and Aggressive -- Part IV. The Origins of Genocide, Mass Killing, and Other Collective Violence -- Part V. The Aftermath of Mass Violence : Trauma, Healing, Prevention, and Reconciliation -- Commentary : Part VI. Creating Caring, Morally Inclusive, Peaceful Societies -- Conclusion : App. what are your values and goals?
"This book gathers together the knowledge gained in a lifelong study of the causes of goodness and evil. Since the 1960s Ervin Staub has studied the roots of helpful, caring, generous, and altruistic behavior in adults and their development in children, as well as passivity in response to others' need. He has also studied bullying and victimization in schools, as well as youth violence and its prevention. He spent many years studying the origins (and prevention) of human destructiveness, genocide, and mass killing, and he has examined the Holocaust, the genocide of the Armenians, the disappearances in Argentina, the genocide in Rwanda, and other instances. He has applied his work in many real-world settings, in seminars, workshops, lectures, and in consultations with parents and teachers, police officers, and political leaders. He has appeared frequently in the media, since September 11 especially, to explain the causes and prevention of terrorism. Professor Staub has published, in addition to books, many articles and book chapters on these topics. A selection from these is gathered, with new writings added, in The Psychology of Good and Evil. The book presents a broad panorama of the roots of violence and caring and suggests how we can create societies and a world that are caring, peaceful, and harmonious. Two of the important themes of the book are how both evil and goodness evolve, step by step, and the great power of bystanders."--Jacket
0511061854 9780511061851 0511181043 9780511181047 9780511615795 0511615795 9786610430864 6610430861
CUP EBA
Good and evil--Psychological aspects.
Social psychology.
Psychology, Social
Aggression--psychology
Morals
Violence--psychology
Bien--Aspect psychologique.
Psychologie sociale.
social psychology.
PSYCHOLOGY--Personality.
Social psychology
Good and evil--Psychological aspects
Das Gute
Das Böse
Psychologie
Goed en kwaad.
Altruïsme.
Vertrouwen.
Groepsdynamica.
Genocide.
Ontwikkelingspsychologie.
BF789.E94 / S83 2003eb
155.2/32
2003 K-545 HM 1111 / S798p 2003