Evil

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.