George R Mastroianni

Of Mind and Murder

Toward a More Comprehensive Psychology of the Holocaust

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Produktbeschreibung

Of Mind and Murder traces the history of psychological attempts to understand the Holocaust and critically assesses the existing literature. As the dominance of the situationist interpretation of the psychology of the Holocaust popularized by Milgram wanes, Of Mind and Murder suggests some possible paths forward to a new psychology of the Holocaust.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 145mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9780190638238
• ISBN-10: 0190638230
• Artikelnr.: 53069304

Autorenporträt

George Mastroianni was trained as an experimental psychologist and conducted empirical research in a variety of areas related to human performance as an Army scientist. He taught a variety of subjects in psychology at the US Air Force Academy in twenty years of classroom teaching, and now teaches leadership in the Psychology of Leadership Program at Pennsylvania State University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Chapter 1: What Was the Holocaust?
* Chapter 2: The Holocaust: A Brief History of Psychological
Explanation
* Chapter 3: Matters of Method: Issues and Problems in the
Psychological Study of the Holocaust
* Chapter 4: Clinical/Abnormal Perspectives
* Chapter 5: Personality
* Chapter 6: Learning and Conditioning
* Chapter 7: Cognition and Memory
* Chapter 8: Age and Development
* Chapter 9: Social Psychology
* Chapter 10: In the Aftermath
* Chapter 11: Psychology, Context, and the Risk of Genocide: Japanese
Evacuation and Confinement
* Chapter 12: The Psychology of The Holocaust in Perspective