The social psychology of good and evil

1. Introduction and overview / Arthur G. Miller

Part I. Conceptual perspectives on good and evil. 2. The evolution of good and evil / Joshua D. Duntley and David M. Buss ; 3. Free will evolved for morality and culture / Andrew E. Monroe, Kathleen D. Vohs, and Roy F. Baumeister ; 4. Categories, intent, and harm / Susan T. Fiske

5. "The devil made me do it": The deification of consciousness and the demonization of the unconscious / John A. Bargh

Part II. Harming others: contexts, causes, and implications. 6. Racism among the well intentioned: bias without awareness /John F. Dovidio, Samuel L. Gaertner, and Adam R. Pearson ; 7. Understanding media violence effects / Sara Prot, Craig A. Anderson, Muniba Saleem, Christopher L. Groves, and Johnie J. Allen ; 8. How dehumanization promotes harm / Nick Haslam and Steve Loughnan ; 9. The social psychology of genocide and mass atrocities /Johanna Ray Vollhardt and Maggie Campbell-Obaid ; 10. Why are the Milgram experiments still so extraordinarily famous ... and controversial? / Arthur G. Miller ; 11. A social interaction approach to objectification: implications for the social-psychological study of sexual violence / Sarah J. Gervais

Part III. The self-concept in relation to good and evil acts. 12. False moral superiority / David Dunning ; 13. Making relationship partners good: a model of the interpersonal consequences of compassionate goals / Jennifer Crocker and Amy Canevello ; 14. Evil persons or evil deeds?: what we've learned about incarcerated offenders / June P. Tangney, Dan V. Blalock, Johanna B. Folk, and Jeffrey Stuewig ; 15. Dishonesty explained: what leads people to act immorally / Francesca Gino and Dan Ariely

Part IV. Group perspectives on good and evil. 16. Bystanders and emergencies: why understanding group processes Is key to promoting prosocial behavior / Mark Levine and Neil Wilson ; 17. Remembering historical victimization: potential for intergroup conflict escalation and conflict reduction / Nyla R. Branscombe, Michael J.A. Wohl, and Ruth H. Warner ; 18. Organizations matter / Arthur P. Brief and Kristin Smith-Crowe ; 19. Globalization and terrorism: the primacy of collective processes / Fathali M. Moghaddam, Victoria Heckenlaible, Madeleine Blackman, Sarah Fasano, and Daniel J. Dufour

Part V. The possibilities for kindness. 20. Benefits and liabilities of empathy-induced altruism: a contemporary review / C. Daniel Batson, Nadia Y. Ahmad, and E.L. Stocks ; 21. Volunteerism: multiple perspectives on benefits and costs / Mark Snyder, Allen M. Omoto, and Patrick C. Dwyer ; 22. The psychology of heroism: extraordinary champions of humanity in an unforgiving world / Zeno E. Franco and Philip G. Zimbardo.

Introduction and overview / Arthur G. Miller

Conceptual perspectives on good and evil

A situationist perspective on the psychology of evil: understanding how good people are transformed into perpetrators /

Philip G. Zimbardo

Basic human needs, altruism, and aggression / Ervin Staub

Four roots of evil / Roy F. Baumeister and Kathleen D. Vohs

The evolution of evil / Joshua D. Duntley and David M. Buss

Harming others: contexts, causes, and implications

What's in a category? Responsibility, intent, and the avoidability of bias against outgroups /

Susan T. Fiske

Contemporary racial bias: when good people do bad things / John F. Dovidio, Samuel L. Gaertner, Jason A. Nier, Kerry Kawakami, and Gordon Hodson

Violent evil and the general aggression model / Craig A. Anderson and Nicholas L. Carnagey

What can the milgram obedience experiments tell us about the Holocaust?: generalizing from the social psychology laboratory / Arthur G. Miller

Conceptualizing sexual violence: socially acceptable coercion and other controversies / Charlene L. Muehlenhard and Zoë D. Peterson

The self-concept in relation to good and evil acts

The pursuit of self-esteem: implications for good and evil /

Jennifer Crocker, Shawna J. Lee, and Lora E. Park

The many faces of lies / Bella M. DePaulo

A moral emotional perspective on evil persons and evil deeds / June Price Tangney and Jeff Stuewig

The possibilities for kindness

Benefits and liabilities of empathy-induced altruism /

C. Daniel Batson, Nadia Ahmad, and E.L. Stocks

Empathy-related responding: moral, social, and socialization correlates / Nancy Eisenberg, Carlos Valiente, and Claire Champion

Social support and behavior toward others: some paradoxes and some directions / Thomas Ashby Wills and Jody A. Resko

Sacrificing time and effort for the good of others: the benefits and costs of volunteerism / Mark Snyder, Allen M. Omoto, and James J. Lindsay

Reducing hostility and building compassion: lessons from the jigsaw classroom / Elliot Aronson.