This book explores the roots of goodness and evil by gathering together the knowledge gained in a lifelong study of harmful or altruistic behavior. Ervin Staub has studied what leads children and adults to help others in need and how caring, helping, and altruism develop in children; bullying and youth violence and their prevention; the roots of genocide, mass killing, and other harmful behavior between groups of people; the prevention of violence; healing victimized groups and reconciliation between groups. He presents a broad panorama of the roots of violence and caring and how we create societies and a world that is caring, peaceful, and harmonious.
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"Ervin Staub's timely and well-researched book combines knowledge and wisdom, challenging notions of evil, and stimulating concepts of good." Elie Wiesel, recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Peace
"The Psychology of Good and Evil offers a profound scientific reflection on an urgent question for mankind: why do people act so destructively, on the one hand, or with compassion and caring on the other? Psychology rarely grapples with such compelling issues, and even more rarely with the brilliance, insight, and power of Ervin Staub. I strongly recommend his book to anyone concerned about the future of our children, and their children." Daniel Goleman, Author of Destructive Emotions and Emotional Intelligence
"Authoritative, grounded, profoundly humane: a rare opportunity to review a lifetime of important work in one book." Richard Rhodes, winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction and author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Masters of Death, and Why They Kill
"Ervin Staub, like no one else, has richly informed our understanding of our human capacity for both evil and good. His life work, bred by his own experience as a Holocaust survivor, marries a scientistas mind with a humanitarianas heart. Kudos to Cambridge University Press for collecting his influential writings, together with new works, in one accessible volume." David G. Myers, Hope College, author of Intuition and The Pursuit of Happiness
"...enlightening...engaging...It is a systematic, rational, and very detailed discussion of a complex subject that is sure to help clarify the thinking of both academics and lay individuals in these uncertain times." Metapsychology Online Book Reviews
"Over the course of almost four decades, Professor Staub has made signal contributions to our understanding of why some people commit unspeakable acts, why others risk their lives to save their intended victims, and why most of us just look the other way. Professor Staub has never looked the other way, and his research and practical efforts to foster--tolerance and accelerate healing--described in this volume--stand as an inspiration to us all." Richard Ned Lebow, James O. Freedman Presidential Professor of Government, Dartmouth College
"The Psychology of Good and Evil offers a profound scientific reflection on an urgent question for mankind: why do people act so destructively, on the one hand, or with compassion and caring on the other? Psychology rarely grapples with such compelling issues, and even more rarely with the brilliance, insight, and power of Ervin Staub. I strongly recommend his book to anyone concerned about the future of our children, and their children." Daniel Goleman, Author of Destructive Emotions and Emotional Intelligence
"Authoritative, grounded, profoundly humane: a rare opportunity to review a lifetime of important work in one book." Richard Rhodes, winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction and author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Masters of Death, and Why They Kill
"Ervin Staub, like no one else, has richly informed our understanding of our human capacity for both evil and good. His life work, bred by his own experience as a Holocaust survivor, marries a scientistas mind with a humanitarianas heart. Kudos to Cambridge University Press for collecting his influential writings, together with new works, in one accessible volume." David G. Myers, Hope College, author of Intuition and The Pursuit of Happiness
"...enlightening...engaging...It is a systematic, rational, and very detailed discussion of a complex subject that is sure to help clarify the thinking of both academics and lay individuals in these uncertain times." Metapsychology Online Book Reviews
"Over the course of almost four decades, Professor Staub has made signal contributions to our understanding of why some people commit unspeakable acts, why others risk their lives to save their intended victims, and why most of us just look the other way. Professor Staub has never looked the other way, and his research and practical efforts to foster--tolerance and accelerate healing--described in this volume--stand as an inspiration to us all." Richard Ned Lebow, James O. Freedman Presidential Professor of Government, Dartmouth College
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This book attempts to understand the roots of goodness and evil. It gathers together the knowledge gained in a lifelong study of harmful or altruistic behavior. Ervin Staub has studied what leads children and adults to help others in need and how caring, helping, and altruism develop in children; bullying and youth violence and their prevention; the roots of genocide, mass killing, and other harmful behavior between groups of people; the prevention of violence; healing victimized groups and reconciliation between groups. All this is represented in the book, which presents a broad panorama of the roots of violence and caring and how we create societies and a world that is caring, peaceful, and harmonious.
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This book of Mr. Staub is just impressive. It explains how, depending on the education you give the children of your country, they will become 'blind' patriots or 'constructive' patriots. It explains how you can propagate goodness in society and how you can detect and stop evilness. If there is a treaty in this world that gives the clues to stop terrorism, nazism, and any act of undesired violence, but also how to heal wounds between different groups who were enemies in the past and from there build a new caring, loving, friendly society, it is this book of Mr. Staub. Just impressive : Probably few men like Mr. Staub in this world have done so much for peace to appear and propagate between human beings.
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other collective violence, active bystandership, later prosocial behavior, preventing police violence, impulsive helping, nonaggressive participants, constructive patriots, prosocial value orientation, poor hospitalized children, difficult life conditions, internal bystanders, constructive patriotism, total social equality, other group violence, contemporary youth violence, activating bystanders, prosocial goal, prosocial child, heroic helpers, basic needs perspective, nonviolent children, nonaggressive persons, intense devaluation, personal goal theory, connected selves Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Academic Press, Cambridge University Press, University of Massachusetts, World War, American Psychological Association, Journal of Social Issues, Free Press, African American, Nazi Germany, Oxford University Press, Journal of Peace Psychology, Psychological Bulletin, United Nations, Englewood Cliffs, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Yale University Press, Harvard University, New Haven, Basic Books, Khmer Rouge, South Africa, Soviet Union, San Francisco New!
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- The Roots of Evil: The Origins of Genocide and Other Group Violence by Ervin Staub in Front Matter, page 451, and Index
- Legacy of Silence: Encounters with Children of the Third Reich by Dan Bar-On on page 474, and Index
- Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust by Richard Rhodes in Back Cover
- Development and Maintenance of Prosocial Behavior:International Perspectives on Positive Morality (Topics in Geobiology) by Ervin Staub in Front Matter
- Positive Social Behavior and Morality by Ervin Staub in Front Matter
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- Terror, Terrorism, and the Human Condition (Twenty-First Century Perspectives on War, Peace, and Human Conflict) by Charles P. Webel in Back Matter
- The Rapture Of Maturity: A Legacy Of Lifelong Learning by Charles D. Hayes in Back Matter
- Learning to Live Together: Preventing Hatred and Violence in Child and Adolescent Development by David A. Hamburg M.D. in Back Matter
- Genocide in Rwanda: Complicity of the Churches by Carol Rittner in Back Matter
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