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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792399803321

Titolo

Indoctrinability, ideology, and warfare : evolutionary perspectives / / edited by Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt and Frank Kemp Salter [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 1998

ISBN

1-57181-923-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxi, 490 p. ) : ill., map ;

Altri autori (Persone)

Eibl-EibesfeldtIrenäus

SalterFrank K

Disciplina

301

Soggetti

Political socialization

Ideology

Ethnopsychology

Dominance (Psychology)

Aggressiveness

Sociology & Social History

Social Sciences

Social Change

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Us and the others : the familial roots of ethnonationalism / Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt -- War and peacemaking : the fusion of two neighboring captive monkey colonies / Detlev W. Ploog -- The evolution of human ultrasociality / Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd -- Notions of nature, culture, and the sources of indoctrinability / Lionel Tiger -- Indoctrination among the Eipo of the highlands of West-New Guinea / Wulf Schiefenhövel -- Indoctrinability and the evolution of socially defined kinship / Polly Wiessner -- The politics of peace in primitive societies : the adaptive rationale behind Corroboree and Calumet / Johan M. G. van der Dennen.

Prejudice and inferential communication / Siegfried Frey -- Sex and gender in advertisements : indoctrination and exploitation / Karl Grammer -- The role of sex and emotional response in indoctrinability : experimental evidence on the "rally 'round the flag" effect / James N.



Schubert -- Ideology and physiological regulation / Michael T. McGuire ... [et al.] -- Art and indoctrination : from the Biblia Pauperum to the Third Reich / Christa Sütterlin -- Probing images of politicians and international affairs : creating pictures and stories of the mind / Robert D. Deutsch -- Reinvent yourself : labile psychosocial identity and the lifestyle marketplace / Hiram Caton -- Indoctrination and group evolutionary strategies : the case of Judaism / Kevin MacDonald.

Genetic similarity theory, ethnocentrism, and group selection / J. Philippe Rushton -- Ethnocentrism vs. pragmatism in the conduct of human affairs / Irwin Silverman and Danielle Case -- Ideology, indoctrination, and noncognitive foundations of belief in legitimacy : a biobehavioral analysis of legitimate violent social action / Gebhard Geiger -- Indoctrination as institutionalized persuasion : its limited variability and cross-cultural evolution / Frank Kemp Salter -- On the evolution of political communities : the paradox of Eastern and Western Europe in the 1980s / Roger D. Masters.

Sommario/riassunto

Violent ethno-nationalist conflicts continue to mar the history of the twentieth century; yet no satisfactory answer as to why humans are susceptible to indoctrination by ideologies leading to inter-group hostility has thus far been found. This volume brings together an international team of leading scientists to address this complex issue from disciplines as diverse as anthropology, psychology, psychobiology, sociology, philosophy, ethology, sociology, and political science. Treating the processes of indoctrination as a biological phenomenon with physiological and psychological aspects, these essays explore the answers to this pressing question in humanity's evolutionary past.