Perspectives on Hate

Investigating how hate originates, evolves, and spreads, this work unites expert perspectives from diverse fields to illuminate the roles of fear, authority, and group identity. It delves deeply into the psychological, emotional, and political forces that drive and intensify hate across societies.

In this newly edited volume Sternberg (Cornell Univ.) again brings together an impressive cadre of scholars in the attempt to answer one of the most important questions of our time (perhaps to be known as amp quot human time amp quot ), namely, how and why people hate amp hellip . The work is theoretically grounded but practical in tone and provides methods of application to help readers discuss and reduce hate and hate-based actions amp hellip . The book will be appreciated by all readers but especially by teachers and researchers in this important area. (choice)

Robert J. Sternberg is Professor of Human Development at Cornell University and Honorary Professor of Psychology at Heidelberg University, Germany.  His BA is from Yale summa cum laude, his PhD is from Stanford, and he has 3 honorary doctorates from around the world. He has won the Grawemeyer Award in Psychology and the James and Cattell Awards from APS.  He is a past-president of APA and of the Federation of Associations in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Education.  He lives in Ithaca, NY.