Understanding and Overcoming Hate
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  • Understanding Hate
    • Introduction
    • What is Hate? >
      • Hate as an Emotion >
        • Papers: Hate as an Emotion
      • Hate as a Belief >
        • Papers: Hate as Belief
      • Hate as an Act >
        • Papers: Hate as an Act
      • Hate as a Policy >
        • Papers: Hate as Policy
    • The Roots of Hate >
      • Early Imprints >
        • When Needs are Not Met
        • Papers; Not Meeting Needs
      • What Are We Doing To Our Children? >
        • Children in Dire Circumstances
      • Effects of Trauma and Abuse >
        • Papers: Stress Effects
        • Papers: Trauma Abuse Effects
        • Links: Stress, Trauma Research
      • Causes and Effects of Bullying
      • Trauma, bigotry, violence linked
      • Authoritarian Upbringings >
        • Papers: Authoritarian Roots
        • Papers: SDO and Authoritarianism
      • Absolutism and Insularity >
        • Papers: Absolutism
      • Papers: Early Roots of Prejudice
      • Impaired Cognition >
        • Papers: Impaired Cognition
      • The Violent Brain >
        • Papers: Violent Brain
      • Roots of Violence and Cruelty >
        • Chart: Powderkeg Formula
        • Papers: Roots of Violence
        • Articles and Blog Posts
      • Ghosts of the Past >
        • Ripples of revenge
        • Papers: Ghosts of the Past
    • How Hate Manifests >
      • Chart
      • Everyday Hate >
        • Papers: Social Rejection
        • Papers: Bullying
      • Social Injustice and Discrimination >
        • Papers: Discrimination
        • Papers: Inequality
        • Articles: Inequality Effects
        • Articles: Cognitive Exhaustion
        • "White" Privilege
      • Stereotyping and Caricature >
        • Papers: Stereotyping
        • Stereotyping
      • Prejudice, Racism and Bigotry >
        • Articles and Blog Posts
        • Papers: Prejudice Racism
        • Papers: Skin color and face
        • Papers: InGroup Outgroup
        • Papers: Implicit Bias
        • Evolutionary Issues >
          • More blog posts
      • Dehumanizing >
        • Views about the outsider
        • Papers: Dehumanizing
      • Hate Crimes >
        • Papers: Hate Crimes
      • Hate Groups >
        • Links: Hate Groups Research
        • Papers and news: Hate Groups
      • Abuse of Power >
        • Papers: Abuse of Power
        • Evil Men: Tyrants, Dictators
        • Blogs and news
        • Articles: SDO and RWA
      • Xenophobia >
        • Papers: Xenophobia
      • Collective Rage >
        • Papers: Collective Violence
      • Extremism >
        • Papers: Terrorism
        • Papers: Extremism
      • Cruelty on Mass Scale >
        • Links
        • Papers: Cruelty on mass scale
    • Hate in the News >
      • News: Hate in America
      • News: Hate Trends Worldwide
      • Extremism: Current Trends: News
      • Authoritarianism Trends
    • Group Influence >
      • Search for Belonging >
        • Papers: Search for Belonging
      • Social Cognition and Learning >
        • Papers: Fairness
        • Papers: Social Cognition
      • Group Think >
        • Papers: Intergroup Dynamics
        • Papers: Group Think
      • Status and Stigma >
        • Papers: Status and Stigma
      • Conformity >
        • Papers: Conformity
      • Obedience and Compliance >
        • Papers: Obedience
      • Bystander Effect
    • Social Defenses >
      • Papers: Social Defenses
      • System Justification >
        • Papers: System Justification
      • Projection >
        • Papers: Projection
      • Denial >
        • Papers: Denial
        • Examples of Denial
        • Papers: Denialism
      • Attribution and Comparison >
        • Attribution Fallacies
        • Papers: Attribution
      • Cognitive Dissonance >
        • Papers: Cognitive Dissonance
    • Fanning the Flames >
      • Media and Persuasion
      • Papers: Persuasion
      • Papers: Indoctrination
      • Papers: Hate Speech
      • Papers: Attitude change
      • News: Cyberhate
      • Links
      • Media Effects in the News
      • Persuasion: Blog Posts and Articles
    • How We Fool Ourselves >
      • Mechanisms: Cognitive Biases and Heuristics >
        • Papers: Brain Tricks
        • Biases: Blogs and Articles
        • Biases organized
      • On Being Wrong
      • Probability and Decision-Making Biases >
        • Papers and articles
      • Memory Distortions >
        • Papers: Memory illusions
      • Perceptual Illusions >
        • Papers: Perceptual Illusions
        • Illusions: Blog Posts and Articles
      • Self-Deception >
        • Papers: Self-deception
      • Delusion, Confabulation >
        • Papers: Delusions
        • Papers: False Beliefs
      • Conspiracy Theories
      • Papers: Neural mechanisms mystical states
      • Brain and Spirituality: Articles
    • Brain and Belief >
      • What is a Belief? >
        • Papers: Belief Formation
        • Papers: Automaticity
      • Perception and Processing >
        • Papers: Perception
      • Salience and Tagging >
        • Papers: Salience
        • Papers: Essentialism
      • Creating Categories >
        • Papers: Categorizing
      • Cognitive Unconscious
      • Embodied Cognition >
        • Papers: Embodied Cognition
      • Emotion Cognition Interplay >
        • Papers
      • Creating a Story about the World >
        • Papers: Story Creation
      • Investing in Cherished Beliefs >
        • Papers
      • Identifying Self with Belief >
        • Papers
      • Search for Meaning >
        • Papers: Meaning
    • Search for Certainty >
      • Dogmatic Beliefs
      • Belief Perseverance
      • Papers: Feeling of Knowing
      • Papers: Rigid Dogmatic thinking
    • Index: All Biases, Distortions and Influences
  • Overcoming Hate
    • Overview of Topics
    • Introduction
    • Prevention >
      • Meeting Formative Needs of Children >
        • Papers: Child and Brain Development
        • Papers: nurturing, attachment bonding
        • Links: Development
      • Promoting Parental readiness >
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        • Roots of Morality
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        • Papers: Roots of Morality and Conscience
        • Papers: Empathy Altruism Compassion
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        • Papers: Moral Cognition
        • Papers: Mirror Neurons
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        • Papers: Emotional Intelligence
        • Papers: Social Cooperation
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          • Papers: Metacognition
        • Perceiving Bias >
          • Papers: Perceiving Bias
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          • Papers: Creative Thinking
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          • Papers: Mindfulness
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        • Interoception >
          • Papers: Interoception
        • Fluid and Flexible >
          • Papers: Fluid Intelligence
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        • Links: Cross-Cultural
        • Papers: Cultural Neuroscience
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      • Teaching an Honest History >
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      • Civic Engagement and Social Responsibility >
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      • Ethics Training >
        • Papers
      • Whole Child Learning >
        • Papers
    • Intervention >
      • Social Support and Inclusion >
        • Papers: Social Support
      • Helping Children in Dire Conditions >
        • Papers: Helping children
      • Preventing Violence and Bullying >
        • Anti-bullying programs and resources
        • Helping At-Risk Kids
        • Papers on helping kids
      • Standing Up To Prejudice, Racism, and Bigotry >
        • Papers: Reducing Prejudice
        • Articles: Reducing Prejudice
        • Papers: Stopping hate crimes
        • Papers: Offsetting Extremism
        • Programs and Projects
        • Hatebraker Examples: News
      • Training Our Protectors >
        • Papers: Training Protectors
      • Healing the Hurt >
        • Papers: Healing Hurt
        • Articles and Blog Posts
      • Educating Our Leaders >
        • Papers: Educating Leaders
      • Resolving Conflict >
        • Papers: Resolving Conflict
        • Programs and articles
      • Israel-Palestine >
        • Papers: Israel-Palestine
        • News and blog posts
      • Promoting Dignity >
        • Links: Human Rights
        • Papers: Human Rights
      • Healing the Ghosts of the Past >
        • Papers: Reconciliation
      • Restorative Justice >
        • Papers: Restorative Justice
      • Confronting Mass Atrocities >
        • Papers: Confronting War Crimes
    • Social Advances >
      • Charters and Declarations
      • Slideshow: Social Advances
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  • Resources
    • Academic Papers: Topic Index
    • Background: Sciences Related to Hate >
      • Related Sciences of Hate
      • Social Psychology Subtopics
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      • New Research Tools
      • Links: Brain Mapping
      • Process of Science
      • What is Good Science?
      • Links: Understanding Science
      • Papers: About Good Science
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    • Timelines of Knowledge >
      • Index of all Pioneers
      • Timeline: Early Pioneers
      • Timeline: Group Psychology
      • Timeline: Prejudice
      • Timeline: Persuasion
      • Timeline: Social Psychology Pioneers
      • Timeline: Authoritarianism
      • Timeline: Scientific bias
    • Researchers and Experts >
      • Developmental Foundations
      • Moral Cognition, Empathy
      • Search for Meaning
      • Search for Belonging
      • Search for Certainty
      • Ghosts of the Past
      • Breaking Cycle of Hate: Solutions
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      • Books: Topic Overview >
        • Development
        • Empathy, Morality
        • Brain and Belief
        • Tricks of Mind
        • Stress, Trauma, Violence
        • Prejudice, Racism, Stereotyping
        • Overcoming Prejudice, Racism
        • Historical Insight
        • Human Rights Abuses
        • Seminal Works
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      • Links: Historical Injustice
      • History of Hate in America: articles
      • Index of Historical Injustice
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Articles and Blog Posts


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The roots of prejudice
From brainethics.wordpress.com -December 17, 2014
Is your social brain wired to differ between how you relate to other people? Is your basic empathic ability changing - in the brain - according to whether you can relate to another person or not? F...


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How Our Brains Perceive Race 
From billmoyers.com - January 10, 2015
And how to reform our bigoted brains.


From: Greater Good
Warning: Racism Is Bad for Your Health. 
August 3, 2010. 
Elizabeth Page-Gould explains that the targets of prejudice aren't the only ones harmed by it.

From: Neurophilosophy
Why do people of other races all look alike? 
15 August 2011. 
People often say they find it difficult to distinguish between individuals of other races. Two recent neurophysiological studies point to the underlying brain mechanisms


Children with Williams Syndrome don't form racial stereotypes ... 
Apr 13, 2010.  
They also suggest that ways of minimizing social fear could be an effective way of reducing racism and other forms of prejudice. 


Reel Bad Arabs : Neurophilosophy
Oct 9, 2007 ... Those swarthy sick Arabs are so anti-Semitic that they blow themselves up from pure prejudice. Joshua may have a folder labeled' "How to  

From: Deric Bownds' MindBlog
Racial group membership modulates empathic brain responses. 
July 15, 2009

African-Americans' Stress Levels Rise with Discrimination
9/19/2011


From: HealthImaging
fMRI shows decrease in empathic responses to other races. July 2009. 
An observer feels more empathy for someone in pain when that person is in the same social group, according to a functional MRI (fMRI) study in the July 1 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience. The study shows that perceiving others in pain activates a part of the brain associated with empathy and emotion more if the observer and the observed are the same race. 


From: Colorblind
The Circular Nature of Pathological Stereotypes 
Psychology Today. 
Stereotypes about African Americans can become self-fulfilling prophecies. 
By 
Dr. Monnica Williams, Ph.D.
December 26, 2011. 

From: Salon
Your brain on white people
By Jeremy Adam Smith

Neuroscience shows the media's overwhelming whiteness really is changing our minds. But we can change them back VIDEO

From: Neuroanthropology Blog
Neuroscience and Race
By daniel lende
August 2, 2012

An initial attempt at outlining a neuroanthropology of race…

From: American Outlook (Sagamore Institute)
Redefining Racism
By Alan J. Levine | June 1, 2002
The term racism has evolved over time, for political reasons.

New Evidence That Racism Isn't 'Natural'
The Atlantic
Robert Wright
OCT 17 2012
Nonetheless, people who want to argue that racism is natural have tried to buttress their position with evidence that racism is in some sense biological. 


From: Lawsonry: Education
Are Students Afraid of Discussing Stereotypes?
By Kerry Hogan September 22, 2012

It seems that many students are so uncomfortable discussing sexist and racist stereotypes that they’d rather deny their existence.

What Does Modern Prejudice Look Like? : NPR
April 22, 2013
Most Americans think of prejudice as animosity toward people in other groups. But two psychologists argue that unconscious bias — often in the form of giving some people special treatment — is the way prejudice largely works in America today.
From: Scientific American
Depressed Patients May Process Hate Feelings Differently
By Rachael Rettner and MyHealthNewsDaily
October 4, 2011

Activity in the brain's "hate circuit" is out of sync across the circuit's three regions, leading to self-loathing and other failures to deal appropriately with feelings of hate, research suggests 

Buried Prejudice: The Bigot in Your Brain
By Siri Carpenter
May 1, 2008

Deep within our subconscious, all of us harbor biases that we consciously abhor. And the worst part is: we act on them

The Origin of Hatred
By Katherine Harmon
August 19, 2009 
Brain scans reveal how hate begins to emerge--and it's not too far from love


The Evolution of Prejudice 
By Daisy Grewal
April 5, 2011 
Scientists see the beginnings of racism in monkeys

From: Bering in Mind 
A Scientific American blog
The Sorriest Animal: Why We Seek Forgiveness
Investigators explore how to use an apology effectively
By Jesse Bering   
Jun 10, 2009  

The "Bitch" Evolved: Why Girls Are So Cruel to Each Other
Researchers study the natural foundations of female social aggression
May 27, 2009 

How the Mind Works (in a Cemetery)
People are more intolerant of outsiders when reminded of their mortality
Mar 12, 2009

Rudeness is for the Rich: Wealthy People Make Poor Conversational Partners
How we unknowingly reveal our socioeconomic status using nonverbal behaviors
Feb 10, 2009 

Getting Even versus Getting Over It: Think Twice Before Enacting Your Revenge
Punishing your enemy is bad for your mental health (but vengeful daydreams are okay)
Jan 26, 2009

You Disgust Me: Does Bad Behavior Really Make Us Feel Unclean and Nauseated?
Research shows that people feel dirty after contemplating crimes
Jan 21, 2009


From Psychology Today BLOGS

Are We Born Racist?
Inside the Science of Prejudice, Stigma, and Intergroup Relations
by Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton, Ph.D.
Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton is an associate professor of psychology at UC Berkeley, and co-director of the UCB's Relationships and Social Cognition Laboratory. He studies prejudice, stigma, intergroup relations, cross-race-friendships and cultural psychology. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University, and his B.A. from Yale University.


Prejudice Can Cause Depression at the Societal, Interpersonal, and Intrapersonal Levels
Sep 18, 2012
William Cox of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and colleagues argue that prejudice and depression are fundamentally connected.

Prejudice can Lead to Depression | Medindia  
by Dr. Reeja Tharu 
October 06, 2012
A study has helped to identify that stereotyping can result in prejudice and this can, in turn, cause depression.


Racism has a new name: HBD
Daily Kos
by Erasmussimo
Jan 12, 2013
 

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Racism And Lack Of Creativity Are Closely Linked, Study Shows
BY NOCAMELS TEAM · JANUARY 29, 2013