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39.Nunca Mas, pp. 386, 387.
40.Keegan, World armies.
41.Weil et al., Area handbook, pp. 320-30.
42.Nunca Mas.
43.Ibid.
44.Commission on Human Rights, Report on the situation, p. 19.
45.Gillespie, R. (1982). Soldiers of Perón: Argentina’s Montoneros. Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 250.
46.Sabato, E. (1986). Prologue. In Nunca Mas, p. 4.
47.Ibid., p. 3.
48.Commission on Human Rights. Report on the situation.
Nunca Mas.
49.Nunca Mas, p. 22.
50.Ibid., p. 38.
51.Ibid., p. 42.
52.Ibid., p. 37.
53.Amnesty International Report. (1980). Testimony on secret detention camps in Argentina. London: Amnesty International Publications.
54.Ibid.
55.Nunca Mas, p. 72.
56.Ibid.
57.Commission on Human Rights, Report on the situation, especially pp. 55-57, 104-16, 199-201.
Gillespie, Soldiers of Perón, pp. 244-50.
Nunca Mas.
58.Nunca Mas, p. 21-22.
59.Ibid., p. 62.
60.Ehlstein, J. (December 1986). Reflections on political torture and murder: Visits with the Mothers of the Plaza del Mayo. Invited lecture, Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
61.Nunca Mas, p. 340.
62.Dworkin, Introduction to Nunca Mas, p. xvii.
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64.Nunca Mas, p. 95.
65.Peters, Torture.
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66.Amnesty International Report, Testimony.
67.Nunca Mas, p. 122.
68.Ibid., see e.g., pp. 122-8.
69.Ibid., p. 60.
70.Dworkin, Introduction, p. xiii.
71.Nunca Mas, p. 197.
72.Hopkins, J. W. (Ed.). (1981-82). Latin American and Caribbean contemporary record. Vol. 1, 1981-1982. New York: Holmes & Meier.
73.Ehlstein, Reflections.
74.Ibid.
75.Nunca Mas, p. 444.
76.Ibid., p. 426.
Chapter 15
1.Time magazine, December 1986, p. 34.
2.Hoffer, E. (1951). The true believer. New York: Harper, p. 59.
3.Toch, H. (1965). The social psychology of social movements. New York: Bobbs-Merrill.
4.Staub, E. (1987). Commentary. In N. Eisenberg & J. Strayer (Eds.), Empathy and its development. New York: Cambridge University Press.
5.Plutchik, R. (1987). Evolutionary bases of empathy. In Eisenberg & Strayer, Empathy.
6.Egendorf, A. (1986). Healing from the war: Trauma and transformation after Vietnam. Boston: Shambhala.
7.Grover, G. (1961). Inside the John Birch Society. Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett Publications, p. 143.
8.Staub, E. (1975). To rear a prosocial child: Reasoning, learning by doing and learning by teaching others. In D. DePalma and J. Folley (Eds.), Moral development: Current theory and research. Hillsdale, N. J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Idem. (1979). Positive social behavior and morality. Vol. 2, Socialization and development. New York: Academic Press.
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9.Staub, E., & Kellett, D. S. (1972). Increasing pain tolerance by information about aversive stimuli. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 21, 198-203.
10.Staub, E., & Baer, R. S., Jr. (1974). Stimulus characteristics of a sufferer and difficulty of escape as determinants of helping. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 30, 279-85.
11.Egendorf, Healing, p. 102.
12.Bandura, A. (1973). Aggression: A social learning analysis. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall.
13.Bellah, P. N., Madsen, R., Sullivan, W. M., Swindler, A., & Lipton, S. M. (1985). Habits of the heart: Individualism and commitment in American life. New York: Harper & Row.
14.Suedfeld, P. (Ed.). (In press). Psychology and Torture. Washington D. C: Hemisphere. Publishing Co.
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15.Staub, E. (In press). The psychology of torture and torturers. In Suedfeld, Psychology and torture.
Chapter 16
1.White, R. K. (1984). Fearful warriors: A psychological profile of U.S. – Soviet relations. New York: Free Press.
2.Deutsch, M. (1983). The prevention of World War III: A psychological perspective. Political Psychology, 4, 3-31.
3.Stoessinger, J. G. (1982). Why nations go to war. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
4.Ibid., pp. 120-1.
5.Ibid.
6.Berlin, I. (1979). Nationalism: Past neglect and present power. Partisan Review, 45, 350.
7.Davidson, S. (1985). Group formation and its significance in the Nazi concentration camps. Israeli Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences, 22, 41-50.
8.Staub, E. (1978). Positive social behavior and morality, vol. 1, Social and personal influences. New York: Academic Press. Ainsworth, M. D. S. (1979). Infant-mother attachment. American Psychologist, 34, 932-69.
9.Mack, J. (1983). Nationalism and the self. Psychoanalytic Review, 2, 47-69.
10.Pinderhughes, C. A. (1979). Differential bonding: Toward a psychophysiological theory of stereotyping. American Journal of Psychiatry, 136, 33-37.
Idem. (1981). Paired biological, psychological and social bonding. Paper presented at the 134th Annual Meetings of the American Psychiatric Association, May 9-12.
11.Barnet, R. J. (Winter, 1985). The ideology of the national security state. Massachusetts Review.
12.Ibid., p. 490.
13.Mack, Nationalism, p. 57.
14.James, W. [1910] (1970). The moral equivalent of war. In R. A. Wasserstrom (Ed.), War and morality. Reprint. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth.
15.Dyson, F. (1984). Weapons and hope. New York: Colophon Books/Harper & Row, p. 19.
16.Morgenthau, H. J., & Thompson, K. (1984). Politics among nations: The struggle for power and peace. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
17.Walzer, M. (1977). Just and unjust war: A moral argument with historical illustrations. New York: Basic Books.
18.Lebow, R. N. (1986). Deterrence reconsidered: The challenge of recent research. In R. K. White (Ed.), Psychology and the prevention of nuclear war: A book of readings. New York: New York University Press.
19.Janis, I. (1983). Victims of groupthink. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
20.Morgenthau & Thompson. Politics among nations.
21.Hoffman, S. (1985). Realism and its discontents. New Republic, November, p. 134.
22.Stover, E., & Nightingale, E. O. (1985). The breaking of bodies and minds: Torture, psychiatric abuse and the health professions. New York: W. H. Freeman.
23.Bloch, S., & Reddeway, P. (1984). Soviet psychiatric abuse: The shadow over world psychiatry. London: Victor Gollancz.
24.Sorokin, P. A. (1971). The powers of creative, unselfish love. In A. H. Maslow (Ed.). New knowledge in human values. Chicago: Henry Regnery Co.
Staub, Positive social behavior, vol. 1.
25.Schopler, J. (1970). An attribution analysis of some determinants of reciprocating a benefit. In J. Macaulay & L. Berkowitz (Eds.), Altruism and helping behavior. New York: Academic Press.
Staub, Positive social behavior, vol. 1.
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Staub, E. (1971). The learning and unlearning of aggression: The role of anxiety, empathy, efficacy and prosocial values. In J. Singer (Ed.), The control of aggression and violence: Cognitive and physiological factors. New York: Academic Press.
Chapter 17
1.Tomkins, S. S. (1965). The constructive role of violence and suffering for the individual and for his society. In S. S. Tompkins & C. E. Izard (Eds.), Affect, cognition, and personality. New York: Springer.
Dyson, F. (1984). Weapons and hope. New York: Colophon Books/Harper & Row.
2.Moscovici, S. (1973). Social influence and social change. London: Academic Press.
Moscovici, S. (1980). Toward a theory of conversion behavior. In L. Berkowitz (Ed.), Current issues in social psychology. New York: Academic Press.
3.Schmookler, A. B. (1984). The parable of the tribes: The problem of power in social evolution. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, pp. 23, 20. 286.
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5.Ibid., pp. xxii-xxiii.
6.Ibid, pp. 91, 88.
7.Maslow, A. H. (1970). Motivation and personality. 2d ed. New York: Harper & Row.
8.Lefcourt, H. M. (1973). The functions of the illusion of control and freedom. American Psychologist, 28, 417-26.
9.Bellah, P. N., Madsen, R., Sullivan, W. M., Swindler, A., & Lipton, S. M. (1985). Habits of the heart: Individualism and commitment in American life. New York: Harper & Row.
10.Maslow, A. (1962). Toward a psychology of being. Princeton: Van Nostrand.
11.Maslow, A. H. (1965). Some basic propositions of a growth and self-actualization psychology. In G. Lindzey & C. S. Hall (Eds.), Theories of personality: Primary sources and research. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
12.Harmon, J. D. (Ed.). (1982). Volunteerism in the eighties. Washington, D. C: University Press of America.
13.Packard, V. (1972). A nation of strangers. New York: David McKay, pp. 6-7.
14.Etzioni, A. (1983). An immodest agenda: Rebuilding America before the twenty-first century. New York: McGraw-Hill.
15.Kinkead, E. (1959). In every war but one. New York: Norton, pp. 165, 168.
16.Garbarino, J., & Bronfenbrenner, U. (1976). The socialization of moral judgment and behavior in cross-cultural perspective. In T. Lickona (Ed.), Moral development and behavior: Theory, research and social issues New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.
17.Janis, I. (1983). Victims of groupthink. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
18.Lear, N. (1985). Goldwater is true protector of our rights. San Diego Tribune, October 29.
19.Gans, H. (1980). Deciding what’s news. New York: Vintage, p. 194.
20.Aronson, J. (1970). The press and the cold war. Boston: Beacon, p. 201.
21.Ellul, J. (1973). Propaganda: The formation of men’s attitudes. New York: Vintage.
22.Rosten, L. (1937). The Washington correspondents. New York: Harcourt & Brace.
23.Mackenzie, A. (1981). Sabotaging the dissident press. Columbia Journalism Review, March/April, pp. 57-63.
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1.Deutsch, M. (1973). The resolution of conflict: Constructive and destructive processes. New Haven: Yale University Press.
2.Sherif, M., Harvey, D. J., White, B. J., Hood, W. K., & Sherif, C. W. (1961). Intergroup conflict and cooperation: The Robbers’ Cave experiment. Norman: University of Oklahoma Books Exchange.
Sherif, M. (1958). Superordinate goals in the reduction of intergroup conflict. American Journal of Sociology, 63, 349-58.
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6.Ben-Ari, R., & Amir, Y. (1988). Intergroup contact, cultural information and change in ethnic attitudes. In Stroebe et al., Social psychology of intergroup conflict.
7.Crosby, T. L. (1986). The impact of civilian evacuation in the Second World War. London: Croom Helm.
8.Boyer, E. (1983). High school: A report on secondary education in America. New York: Harper & Row, p. 213.
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Staub, E. (1979). Positive social behavior and morality. Vol. 2, Socialization and development. New York: Academic Press.
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13.Moynihan, D. P. (1986). Family and nation. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
14.Bronfenbrenner, U. (1960). The mirror image in Soviet-American relations: A social psychologist’s report. Journal of Social Issues, 16, 45-56.
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Staub, Positive social behavior and morality, vol. 2.
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Index
Abel, Theodore, on anti-Semitism, 104, 114, 131-2n
abolition of slavery, group action in, 261
Ache Indians (Paraguay), killing of, 85
Adana, Turkey, killings in, 177
adaptability of society to change, 14-15
Adorno, Theodor, on authoritarian personality, 73n
agentic mode, authoritarian influences on, 43
aggression (see also violence): anonymity and, 50, 77; as cultural ideal, 54; displacement of, 63-4; economic conditions and, 44; frustration-aggression hypothesis and, 38-9; genetic predisposition for, 24, 35, 52-3; in headhunter tribes, 52; historical availability of, 54; instrumental, 43; moral orientation and, 56-7; motivations for, 38-44, 63-4; and nonaggression, 274-83; origin/instigation of, 35-6, 75-6; in perpetrators, 71; persistent, 52-4; personality characteristics in, 75-6; power desires and, 40-1; situational factors in, 75-6; societal potential for, 20; sociobiology and, 52-3; in United States, 242
agriculture in Cambodia, 199
Alfonsin, President, 227n
Alianza Anticommunista Argentina, 218
Allport, Gordon, on creation of common enemy, 95
altruism (see also continuum of benevolence; helpfulness; heroic bystanders): genetic predisposition for, 24, 53; and the “good fanatic,” 77, 169, 229; in group, 28; group subversion of, 263; societal institutions promoting, 66; of Wallenberg, 168-9
American Jewish organizations in the Holocaust, 156
Amherst, Massachusetts, playground group work at, 275
Amnesty International: on Argentine prisoner treatment, 222-3; prisoners freed by, 87; on superiors assuming responsibility, 226