Psychology of genocide

Psychology of genocide aims to explain how perpetrators can shoot innocent people, such as these Soviet civilians killed in a 1941 mass execution

The psychology of genocide attempts to explain genocide by means of psychology. Psychology of genocide aims to explain why and how genocide occurs and why some people become genocide perpetrators while others are bystanders or rescuers.

See also

• Milgram experiment

Sources

• Baum, Steven K. (2008). The Psychology of Genocide: Perpetrators, Bystanders, and Rescuers. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-71392-4.
• Dutton, Donald G. (2007). The Psychology of Genocide, Massacres, and Extreme Violence: Why Normal People Come to Commit Atrocities: Why Normal People Come to Commit Atrocities. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-0-313-07149-2.
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