Evil by Dr Julia Shaw - here's an interview to give a taste of the book.
- Chapter 1
- in addition to dehumanizing immigrants mentioned in On Tyranny, deindividuation: when we seeing ourselves as anonymous
- Cute-Aggression- when something is so cute one needs to squeeze it
- Dark Tetdad: psychopathy, sadism, narcissism and Machiavellianism
- Fallon: psychopath researcher
- Chapter 2
- dawdling?
- 73% of men & 66% of women have had murder fantasies
- recidivism for murder is 1-3%
- Why do most murders happen at the hands of men?
- Chapter 3
- 95% of respondents said men were more likely to be creepy
- What separated a creepy laugh verses a nervous laugh to the listener?
- Technology
- Victim-blaming is so much more common for cybercrime than other types
- Social contagion explains some troll behavior
- Sex Chapter (don't all psychology books need one) - consider a different point-of-view - reasonings
- Chapter 8
- references anthropologist F Larson - public beheadings are intended to draw an audience - Terrorist who post videos that no one watches would be considered a failure
- Back to Nazis - high-ranked officials would turn a guilty conscience around into a victim.