Title:
Understanding angry groups : multidisciplinary perspectives on their motivations and effects on society / Susan C. Cloninger and Steven A. Leibo, editors ; with the assistance of Mohammad Amjad.
Author:
Cloninger, Susan C., 1945- editor.
Leibo, Steven A., 1950- editor.
Publication Information:
Santa Barbara, California : Praeger an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2017]
Call Number:
HM716 .U53 2017
Abstract:
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.
ISBN:
9781440833502
Physical Description:
xvi, 434 pages ; 25 cm.
Contents:
The role of individual differences in inciting anger and social action -- Attributions to prejudice: Collective anger and action -- Moving toward extremism: Group polarization in the laboratory and the world -- The anger of women warriors -- Warrior rage: The many dimensions of anger in our military and veterans -- "A bad counselor": Anger in the Bible -- Anger and conflict in cinema -- Anger, connection, and activism: Coming of age in Harry Potter -- Revolution, emigration, and anger: Angry exile groups in the aftermath of the French and Russian revolutions -- The extreme right and Neo-Nazism in the post-war United States -- Fighting "the system": The Turner Diaries -- The institutionalization of political anger: The case of the Affordable Care Act -- Anger and political action by Cubans in Florida since 1959 -- Nixon, Latin America, and the politics of anger -- The Greeks know anger: The causes and consequences of the continuing crisis of capitalism in the Eurozone south -- Environmental conflict, collective anger, and resolution: Strategies in the Niger Delta conflict -- Anger and politics in Iran -- Burning for independence: Anger, violence, and the evolution of the Tibetan independence movement -- The role of anger in the radicalization of terrorists.
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