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 …to Forecast Vigilante and Xenophobic Violence in Urban South Africa David Cooke (Psychology, University of Bergen), Barbara E. Mcdermott (Psychiatry, University of California-Davis), and Jennifer Skeem (School of Social Welfare…
The Psychology of Killing Civilians …Wallman, director of research at HFG, examine the psychology that enables government forces or allied groups to kill civilians (politicide) and the psychology that enables nongovernmental groups to kill civilians…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholars …Kimberly Barletto Becker (Psychology, University of Arizona), Reactions to Violence: A Study of Children From Violent Homes Peter N. S. Hoaken (Psychology, McGill University), The Roles of Executive Cognitive Function,…
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…
