Psychological Construction of the "Other": Social Death of the Victims

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Who argued that social death separates genocide from other cases of mass murder?

Claudia Card

What are the three mechanisms that are used to psychologically create the "other" in cases of genocide?

  1. Us-them thinking
  2. Moral disengagement
  3. Blaming the victims

Which biologist has called our tendency to divide the world into 'us' and 'them' one of the few true human universals?

Lyal Watson
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What are the two psychological adaptations that create our innate tendency toward us-them thinking?

  1. Ethnocentricism
  2. Xenophobia

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