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The Psychology of Hate 1st Edition, Kindle Edition

by Robert J. Sternberg (Editor) Format: Kindle Edition
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Hate is among the most powerful of human emotions—it has caused great sorrow and suffering—and yet it has been understudied by psychologists.

After the genocide perpetrated by the Nazis in World War II, the expression "Never Again" became a familiar refrain. Yet, during the last half of the twentieth century and the beginning of the current decade, society has witnessed staggering numbers of brutal and hateful acts.

News sources are filled with reports of Palestinians attacking Jews and Jewish settlers attacking Palestinians, white supremacist groups murdering members of minority groups, religious zealots killing doctors who perform abortions, teenagers violently clashing with their classmates, genocide in Rwanda and mass killing in Bosnia, and the 9/11 attacks on the U.S. These are not random or sudden bursts of irrationality, but rather, carefully planned and orchestrated acts of violence and killing. Underlying these events is a widespread and hazardous human emotion: hate.

The Psychology of Hate is a ground-breaking book that brings together experts on the psychology of hate to present their diverse viewpoints in a single volume. The contributors address a set of questions that include: How do you conceptualize hate and what evidence is there for this conceptualization? What do you see as the role of hate in terrorism, massacres, and genocides? How can hate be assessed?

In addition, this volume provides concrete suggestions for how to combat hate, and attempts to understand the minds both of those who hate and those who are hated.

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  1. ISBN-13
    978-1591471844
  2. Edition
    1st
  3. Publisher
    American Psychological Association
  4. Publication date
    December 15, 2004
  5. Language
    English
  6. File size
    1551 KB
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00D2DL3NK
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ American Psychological Association; 1st edition (December 15, 2004)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 15, 2004
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1551 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 390 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.8 3.8 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

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  • yainelis
    5.0 out of 5 stars A must
    Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2018
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    I'm still reading it. You get a better perspective when you analyze these issues from a psychological standpoint. We all should read more books like this to understand people's behavior including ourselves instead of being so judgmental about everything, even of writers that are just trying to give us a new way to see things.
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  • hakan senturk
    2.0 out of 5 stars Not for somebody outside of psychology as a profession.
    Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2011
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    I must confess that I did not get satisfied with this book as somebody outside of the psychology as a profession. It mainly deals with the semantics and there are enormous repetitions. Besides, it is not lucid. It may be of value for somebdy preparing a scientific research about hate as a psychological phenomenon, but it is not for somebody who inquires about the history, evolution and basis of hate. I put two stars, because I did not want to say I hated a book which's subject is hate.
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  • I will come again and recommend to my friend.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very good
    Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2013
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    It's cheap and just like new one. Ship very quickly ,I love it.
    I will come again and recommend to my friend.
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  • Carmi Turchick
    1.0 out of 5 stars Great Comedy, Poor Scholarship
    Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2005
    I have only finished the first four chapters. There are some great knee-slappers here, but most people would not seek out such a work for the humor.

    Here all the tired baseless assumptions are trotted out one after another. Hate "caused" by people not liking each other...gosh, what an insight! Hate "caused" by people having bad things happen to them as children; yes, if only we can somehow guarantee that nothing bad will ever happen to any more children, then we might have a peaceful utopia! Hate "caused" by "devaluing" those who are different. So, like, we hate people because we hate them? And if only the two sides knew each other better...like for example in Bosnia where they had lived together and married each other for centuries? Yeah, that worked out great.... Of course, what they need is therapy! If only we can methodically destroy their illusions about themselves and others with "cognitive therapy," then we will manage to create people too depressed and suicidal to kill others! (Trivers, 2002, Taylor and Brown, and Mele, 1997, show that self-deception is adaptive and that those with an accurate view of themselves invariably suffer from depression, but that means more clients for these quacks!)

    Meanwhile they work far harder to avoid knowledge than to find it. Staub cites 14 of his own works, while Beck and Pretzer manage to prove they are incompetent. Guys, a study that "shows" the effectiveness for "cognitive therapy" by comparing a treated group and a completely untreated group, without any sort of "blind" for subjects or researchers, and completely dependant on self-reporting, is not an "empirical" source of evidence for anything. Ever hear of the placebo effect? Researcher bias? I guess not. Real research has shown that none of the psychology models is more effective than another, and that minimally trained high school grads that offer an empathetic ear are also as good as any of them (see Dawes in Codes of Conduct, 1996). If any of the mound of garbage that they all pass off for an academic field was valid, surely one method would prove superior. How is it that two methods based on completely opposite views produce the same results? Why not just give everyone a sugar pill and save time?

    One sees the wheels turning madly as they try to avoid any hint of the knowledge that humans have evolved psychologies which just happen to have a lot to do with the topic of hate, especially group hate. Guys, it is not all culture and how sucky a childhood we had.

    Beyond the gross errors and the absurd, like Sternberg actually starting his paper with a dictionary definition (not OK after 9th grade...), the standard misunderstandings are all there as well. Conflation of individual level hate with group hate, for one (Ummmm, one is based on prejudice and one is not, one can be built on pro-social emotions towards one's group or nation, the other one cannot, etc.), and the jaw dropping inability to see that there are plenty of "others" that we are fine with, it is not just that they are "other" that starts the ball of hate rolling.

    Then it just gets sad when they trot out their little solution kits. Yeah, let's go give therapy to Bin Laden so he can see our side of things and hear about our suffering. That's the ticket! It would be hilarious to seem them try. Let's see, Staub's grocery list would do any late '60's hippy proud..."love and affection...constructive fulfillment of basic human needs; humanizing the other...self-awareness...healing from past victimization..." Of course we must also toss in "Helping young people who come from difficult backgrounds or who have had painful experiences..." Well, who has not had a painful experience? Strange that there is no correlation between such a background and one's being willing to become a suicide bomber. College degrees, on the other hand, do make one more likely to blow oneself up. If they had one of these winners for a professor, I guess I can understand.

    Great book if you want to laugh hard. If you want to understand the topic, the contents of this book have only negative value. The more you read, the less you will know, just like watching Faux New's coverage of Iraq.
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  • William Mcconkey
    5.0 out of 5 stars An Important Read
    Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2009
    The contents of this book make the book's academic style almost disappear. This is an important read that educates, fascinates and should motivate the reader. There are probably over a dozen doctoral dissertation opportunities within the book, as well.
    We must all learn to understand hate and have a plan that we follow to overcome it and prevent it from operationalizing. This book can help us all.

    William C. McConkey, Ph.D.
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