The Psychology of Good and Evil: Why Children, Adults, and by Ervin Staub

By Ervin Staub

This ebook gathers the data won in a lifelong research of the roots of goodness and evil. because the overdue Nineteen Sixties, Ervin Staub has studied the explanations of worthy, worrying, beneficiant, and altruistic habit. He has additionally studied bullying and victimization in faculties in addition to formative years violence and its prevention. He spent years learning the origins of genocide and mass killing and has tested the Holocaust, the genocide of the Armenians, the autogenocide in Cambodia, the disappearances in Argentina, the genocide in Rwanda. He has utilized his paintings in lots of genuine global settings and has consulted mom and dad, academics, cops, and political leaders. considering that September eleventh, he has seemed usually within the media explaining the explanations and prevention of terrorism. Professor Staub's paintings is accumulated jointly for the 1st time within the Psychology of excellent and Evil.

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