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Democidal Thinking: Patterns In The Mindset Behind Organized Mass Killing, Gerard Saucier, Laura Akers
Democidal Thinking: Patterns In The Mindset Behind Organized Mass Killing, Gerard Saucier, Laura Akers
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal
We derived a model identifying observable attitudes among perpetrators of democides - mass-killing programs associated with governments that cost over 160 million lives in the last century. These attitudes, evident in rhetoric mobilizing support for killing, have previously received too little systematic study. Content-analysis of text from 20 prominent, diversely sampled cases of democide from around the world yielded 20 typical features of democidal mindset, present in most cases. These prominently included essentialist beliefs in out-group inferiority, dehumanization and moral exclusion, a paranoid-thinking style, and certain forms of nationalism, among numerous other features. These can function to facilitate the inculpation …
A Case Against Bringing Monsters To Justice: Pinochet, Deterrence, And Personal Identity, Ibpp Editor
A Case Against Bringing Monsters To Justice: Pinochet, Deterrence, And Personal Identity, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article presents a philosophical psychology case against subjecting former national leaders who allegedly committed atrocities committed while they were in power to adjudication through a criminal or civil justice system.
Original Sin And The Power Of Narrative In Intelligence Operations, Ibpp Editor
Original Sin And The Power Of Narrative In Intelligence Operations, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article illustrates how the intent of a political community to demand sinless behavior in its leaders can sow the seeds for that community's demise.
From Whence Evil? Shakespeare As Political Psychologist, Ibpp Editor
From Whence Evil? Shakespeare As Political Psychologist, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This paper identifies a passage from Shakespeare's Hamlet that is germane to the question of the source of political evil.