Acknowledgements PART 1: Lighting the Fuse: Psychological and Emotional Predispositions For Extreme Intergroup Violence Chapter 1: Genocide and the Male Warrior Psychology Adam Tratner and Melissa McDonald Chapter 2: Obedient authoritarians or lay Darwinists? Ideological motivations of genocide Micha? Bilewicz Chapter 3: How Envy Can Incite Anti-Semitism and Genocide Richard H. Smith and Charles E. Hoogland PART 2: The Genocidal Mindset Chapter 4: Emotional Sources of Intergroup Atrocities Michael J. A. Wohl, Nassim Tabri, and Eran Halperin Chapter 5: The many roles of dehumanization in genocide Nick Haslam Chapter 6: Moral Courage and Moral Disregard: Different Sides of the Same Coin? Allison B. Mueller and Linda J. Skitka Chapter 7: Understanding Intergroup Violence and Its Aftermath From Perpetrator and Victim Perspectives Mengyao Li and Bernhard Leidner PART 3: Evil is Not Inevitable: New Perspectives on Obedience and Social Influence Chapter 8: Engaged Followership and Engaged Fellowship: Towards a Unified Analysis of Harm-doing and Helping Stephen D. Reicher and S. Alexander Haslam Chapter 9: In what way is evil 'banal'? Hanna Arendt's (interactionist) thesis Leonard S. Newman PART 4: Never Again, Never Forget, Never Forgive, or Never Mind: The Aftermath of Extreme Intergroup Violence Chapter 10: The Aftermath of Genocide: Divergent Social Psychological Processes among Victim and Perpetrator Groups Johanna Ray Vollhardt and Michelle Sinayobye Twali Chapter 11: Understanding and Counteracting Genocide Denial Rezarta Bilali, Yeshim Iqbal, and Samuel Freel Chapter 12: Why do people become perpetrators of genocide? The dangers of explanation Ying Tang and Leonard S. Newman

"Genocides are profound moral failures, that much is obvious. The thoughtful, provocative chapters in this superb volume go beyond that to explain the ways in which genocides are human failures. The book's gift to readers is in positioning them to see how social psychology helps us to prevent, and respond to, genocides, and can help all of humanity to heal." --Craig McGarty, Professor of Psychology, Western Sydney University "This book makes a strong case that social psychology has something to contribute to understanding--and, one hopes, one day eliminating--the worst of human behavior. It takes us back to the roots of our discipline when the pioneers of social psychology grappled with the most important social and political issues of the day." --Jerry M. Burger, Professor Emeritus, Santa Clara University, and the author of The Shadows of 1915

Selling point: Provides the first systematic overview of recent research by social psychologists on genocide Selling point: Pulls together accessible summaries of cutting-edge research at the interface of psychology and genocide Selling point: Explores the psychological and emotional predispositions for extreme intergroup violence, the genocidal mindset, and the roles of obedience and social influence

Leonard S. Newman earned his PhD in social-personality psychology at New York University. He is an associate professor at Syracuse University, where he serves as Associate Chair of the psychology department. Dr. Newman is co-editor of Understanding Genocide: The Social Psychology of the Holocaust and co-author of Social Psychology: A Storytelling Approach (both with Ralph Erber). His research interests include social stigma, dehumanization, psychological defense, and public perceptions of psychological research.

Selling point: Provides the first systematic overview of recent research by social psychologists on genocide Selling point: Pulls together accessible summaries of cutting-edge research at the interface of psychology and genocide Selling point: Explores the psychological and emotional predispositions for extreme intergroup violence, the genocidal mindset, and the roles of obedience and social influence