Explaining the Holocaust: Does Social Psychology Exonerate the Perpetrators?

Understanding Genocide: The Social Psychology of the Holocaust

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages

  Miller, Arthur G ^a   Buddie, Amy M ^b   Kretschmar, Jeffrey ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Genocide; Holocaust; Intentionality; Perpetrators; Random assignment; Responsibility; Social influence; Social psychology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940010710     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195133622.003.0014     Document Type: Chapter

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