The Psychology of Good and Evil: Why Children, Adults, and Groups Help and Harm Others

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.

Author: Ervin Staub
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 07/21/2003
Pages: 612
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.78lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.08w x 1.33d
ISBN: 9780521528801

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