Some Things Psychologists Think They Know About Aggression and Violence …Is Normal Group Psychology, Not Individual Pathology The psychology of state violence is twofold. There is the psychology of leaders who plan and order the violence, and there is the…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholars …(History, Loyola University Chicago). In the Name of Christ: Religious Violence and Its Legitimacy in Mexico (1920-2020) Uri Lifshin (Psychology, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya). Increasing Perceived Similarity of the Self to…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholars …York University). Community Identity, Alliance, and Confrontation Over the Environmental Movement in Clayoquot Sound, British Columbia Karen Franklin (Psychology, California School of Professional Psychology). Hate Crime or Rite of Passage?…
The Relationship Between Theory of Mind, Social Information Processing, and Aggression in Preschool Children Much recent research suggests that preschoolers undergo a fundamental change in their ability to understand the internal states (desires, beliefs, emotions) of others (termed theory of mind). Little research has…
The Mind of the Segregationist …campaigns from the mid-1950s through the mid-1960s, did not go as deep in southern white culture and psychology as historians have hitherto thought. Other religious leaders of the white South…
A Political Science Perspective on Teaching about Violence …Allport’s classic social psychology text, to spark discussions of whether diversity programs based on the “contact hypothesis” can reduce ethnic tensions and conflict. But despite our increasing openness to multi-disciplinary…
“Evidence Doesn’t Seem to Play a Key Role”: A Conversation with David Weisburd …procedural justice as the first goal of policing, as [Yale law and psychology professor] Tom Tyler and colleagues sometimes do, that’s a mistake. I think it’s wrong to imagine that…
“It’s Time to Be Very Afraid”: A Conversation with Peter Coleman …who is devoting his career to combating the kind of toxic polarization that he believes is a precursor to political violence. A professor of psychology and education, Coleman has written…
Social Dominance and Coercive Strategies of Resource Control in Children Aggressive behavior has traditionally been considered an indicator of psychological or behavioral maladaptation (impulsivity, social cognitive deficits) that puts the child at risk for peer rejection. Yet we casually observe…
When We Torture: Moral and Pragmatic Arguments For and Against Torture, and Their Effect on Public Support For Redressing Past and Preventing Future Injustice Violence can take many forms, and it can vary in scale and intensity. This research project focuses on one specific type of violence that is usually perpetrated against a relatively…
