Intergroup Schadenfreude: Motivating participation in collective violence

Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

Volumn 3, Issue , 2015, Pages 12-17

  Cikara, Mina ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; AVERSION; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CONFLICT; CORPUS STRIATUM; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DEHUMANIZATION; DISPLACEMENT BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; EMPATHY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INTERGROUP SCHADENFREUDE; MOTIVATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REINFORCEMENT; REVIEW; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CATEGORIZATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; STEREOTYPY; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84920942517     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23521546     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2014.12.007     Document Type: Review

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