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Social Psychology and Peace

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Social psychologists seek to understand how social phenomena are related to attitudes and behaviours, and are impacted by group presence and belonging. Interest in social psychology flourished in the 1940s.1 Motivated by the Holocaust, researchers wished to understand why individuals would perform such acts of evil, and under what conditions these acts would be most likely to occur. This surge in research paved the way for social psychology’s contribution to the understanding of peace: a contribution not always recognized by social psychologists.2

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  1. Shelley McKeown Jones
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of Manchester, UK

    Oliver P. Richmond (Research Professor, International Professor, Visiting Professor), Sandra Pogodda (Lecturer) & Jasmin Ramović (Doctoral Candidate) (Research Professor, International Professor, Visiting Professor),  (Lecturer) &  (Doctoral Candidate)

  2. Kyung Hee University, Korea

    Oliver P. Richmond (Research Professor, International Professor, Visiting Professor) (Research Professor, International Professor, Visiting Professor)

  3. University of Tromso, Norway

    Oliver P. Richmond (Research Professor, International Professor, Visiting Professor) (Research Professor, International Professor, Visiting Professor)

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Jones, S.M., Christie, D.J. (2016). Social Psychology and Peace. In: Richmond, O.P., Pogodda, S., Ramović, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Disciplinary and Regional Approaches to Peace. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-40761-0_17

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