The Psychology of Bystanders, Perpetrators, and Heroic Helpers

Understanding Genocide: The Social Psychology of the Holocaust

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages

  Staub, Ervin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bystanders; Genocide; Group violence; Holocaust; Mass killing; Motives; Nazi germany; Perpetrators; Persecution; Psychology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940020196     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195133622.003.0002     Document Type: Chapter

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