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Suicide Terrorism: Performance Violence As Public Plunge, Gregory Saathoff
Suicide Terrorism: Performance Violence As Public Plunge, Gregory Saathoff
New England Journal of Public Policy
This article explores the relationship between the social psychology of the individual and the final abyss of suicide terrorism. The boy on the high dive is a metaphor for the fearful pause before the leap. For a young child, the dive is exciting and dangerous: the fearful pause is somewhat analogous to thoughts and feelings before the terrorist’s catastrophically destructive contemplated homicidal/suicidal behavior. If we think about the leap itself, there may be a better analogy. Is there any corollary to a specific group of suicide completers? What can be learned from others who have contemplated and undertaken perhaps the …
A Sociocultural Approach To Teaching About Racism, Tugce Kurtis, Phia S. Salter, Glenn Adams
A Sociocultural Approach To Teaching About Racism, Tugce Kurtis, Phia S. Salter, Glenn Adams
Race and Pedagogy Journal: Teaching and Learning for Justice
Drawing upon previous research which finds that a sociocultural approach to teaching about racism results in increased consciousness about racism and support for antiracist policies (Adams et al., 2008), we designed and implemented a tutorial consistent with this approach in our Cultural Psychology courses. The tutorial presented undergraduate students with media images involving stereotypical representations of people from various racially marginalized groups. Students indicated how much racism they perceived in each image and discussed different conceptions of racism, reasons for variation in racism perception, and potential consequences of exposure to these images. The instructor then presented findings from social and …
Peer Pressure: Social Psychology And The Political And Security Committee, Bryce Comstock
Peer Pressure: Social Psychology And The Political And Security Committee, Bryce Comstock
Claremont-UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union
No abstract provided.
Transmission Of Antisocial Behavior Across Generations: The Role Of Psychophysiology, M. Brooke Razor
Transmission Of Antisocial Behavior Across Generations: The Role Of Psychophysiology, M. Brooke Razor
Kaleidoscope
No abstract provided.