Understanding Angry Groups: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Their Motivations and Effects on Society

Author Susan C. Cloninger - Steven A. Leibo

Publisher Praeger

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Author

Susan C. Cloninger - Steven A. Leibo

Publisher

Praeger

Volume

Copyright

2017

ISBN13

9781440833519

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Format

eBook

Grade Level

College Freshman - College Senior

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TBD

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Overview

This book examines the dynamics that lead to anger in individuals, within groups, and between groups; identifies the role of the media in angry group behavior; and offers solutions for dealing with angry groups and channeling that negative energy in positive ways.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Introduction.
From the Social Sciences and the Humanities.
1: The Role of Individual Differences in Inciting Anger and Social Action.
2: Attributions to Prejudice: Collective Anger and Action.
3: Moving Toward Extremism: Group Polarization in the Laboratory and the World.
4: The Anger of Women Warriors.
5: Warrior Rage: The Many Dimensions of Anger in Our Military and Veterans.
6: “A Bad Counselor”: Anger in the Bible.
7: Anger and Conflict in Cinema.
8: Anger, Connection, and Activism: Coming of Age in Harry Potter.
From a Historical to Geopolitical Context.
9: Revolution, Emigration, and Anger: Angry Exile Groups in the Aftermath of the French and Russian Revolutions.
10: The Extreme Right and Neo-Nazism in the Post-War United States.
11: Fighting “The System”: The Turner Diaries.
12: The Institutionalization of Political Anger: The Case of the Affordable Care Act.
13: Anger and Political Action by Cubans in Florida Since 1959.
14: Nixon, Latin America, and the Politics of Anger.
15: The Greeks Know Anger: The Causes and Consequences of the Continuing Crisis of Capitalism in the Eurozone South.
16: Environmental Conflict, Collective Anger, and Resolution: Strategies in the Niger Delta Conflict.
17: Anger and Politics in Iran.
18: Burning for Independence: Anger, Violence, and the Evolution of the Tibetan Independence Movement.
19: The Role of Anger in the Radicalization of Terrorists.
Conclusion.
About the Editors and Contributors.
Index.
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Understanding Angry Groups: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Their Motivations and Effects on Society

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