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Key Phrases: primitive neural system, advanced neural system, neural choice, United States, Upper Paleolithic, World War (more...)

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Combining anthropology, zoology and neuroscience, Why We Hate: Understanding, Curbing, and Eliminating Hate in Ourselves and Our World attempts to explain the scientific underpinnings of the emotion that leads to prejudice, violence and genocide. The far-ranging if sometimes digressive book by journalist and science writer Rush Dozier Jr. (Fear Itself) uses plenty of present-day examples of racial, religious and political conflicts the Russians' war in Chechnya, the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Oklahoma City bombing as a launching point for his explanations of how the primitive reptilian brain and the fight-or-flight response lie at the root of our cultural prejudices.
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"In the post-9/11 struggle for a sane global vision, this antihatred manifesta could not be more timely."

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Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (June 27, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0809224798
ISBN-13: 978-0809224791
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
primitive neural system, advanced neural system, neural choice, binary instinct, limbic association cortex, eliminating hate, complex spoken language, prefrontal association cortex, subgenual prefrontal cortex, hate response, specific instincts, primitive tendency, orbitofrontal cortex, enlightened future, second intifada

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United States, Upper Paleolithic, World War, Los Angeles, Middle East, Northern Ireland, Buford Furrow, Oklahoma City, Andy Williams, Brenda Spencer, Cathy Freeman, Joseph Ileto, San Diego, Kip Kinkel, West Bank, Columbine High School, Elyse Pahler, Granada Hills, Near East, Santana High School, United Nations, Jane Goodall, John Hinckley, Nobel Peace Prize, Pearl Harbor

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Principles of Neural Science by Eric Kandel on 7 pages
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The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals (Classics of psychology and psychiatry) by Charles Darwin on 4 pages
Rise of the West by William H. McNeill on 4 pages
Mapping the Mind by Rita Carter on 4 pages

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5.0 out of 5 stars Good book, December 2, 2002

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This review is from: Why We Hate : Understanding, Curbing, and Eliminating Hate in Ourselves and Our World (Hardcover)

I like that way that the author explains the biological reasons for hate and the ways that hate can be reduced and avoided by training and education. I particularly like the way that the author excludes any religious angles, and sticks to the science of the matter.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiring! Great insight to the human mind, February 1, 2003

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This review is from: Why We Hate : Understanding, Curbing, and Eliminating Hate in Ourselves and Our World (Hardcover)

This book is a great read. The author does a great job of uncovering the mechanism behind the human tendency to steoreotype about a person, a group of people and oneself. The book is extremely well written and well researched. The author describe hatred as a complex emotion created by an imbalance between different parts of the brain leading to, among other things, racism, sexism, and phobia. The book help answers lot of questions, I had, for example, how the brain process violence in the media or whether there is a connection between intolerance and lack of self-esteem, etc. The author provides biological, cultural and social conditions, that lead to hatred, dehumanizing of another person/group and eventually acts of violence (e.g. war, crime, etc). The examples include many types of violent acts, from honor killings to Timothy McVeigh and from serial homicide to depression induced suicide. Familiar headlines help the reader follow the rather unique and complex description of the human brain. The book also makes a convincing case of why raising gender rights will help to curb hatred in the world. Towards the end of the book, the author cites examples of society where hatred is uncommon and provides strategy to elimiate hatred.

Important takeaway: Hate is extraordinarily difficult and dangerous to overcome but peace cannot be maintained without addressing the problem of hatred.

I can't wait to read Dozier other book, Fear Itself.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Not Impressed, May 7, 2007

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I started this book with hopes of making a good psychology presentation. This book has some points that are very good, especially the areas with the biology of hate. But the rest of the book is filled with tangents that make little to no connection to the topic of hate. How does cromagnon (sp?) art tell us about hate? I still dont know.

Don't read it especially if you are looking for a psychology book.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Good Science, poor Social Science and no psychology
Mr. Dozier shows a flair for taking a little science, which is good, and carrying it as far away from America's door steps as he can (which is bad). Read more

Published on July 27, 2003 by Herbert L Calhoun

4.0 out of 5 stars Good topic, explores issues, but I do have a gripe
This book tries to explain why people varying from Osama Bin Ladin to Dylan Klebold lack all empathy for their victims, and why they hate. It is also about why we hate. Read more

Published on January 9, 2003

4.0 out of 5 stars Looks good so far
Checked out from library, read intro... I like the brain-based approach, but would be more complete with a religious angle on contributing to ending hate. Read more

Published on November 24, 2002

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