Political Science 313y 2005-2006 J. Fletcher
Politics and Psychology Sidney Smith 3005
The Politics and Psychology of Terror and Intolerance
Following a brief introduction to the field of political psychology and two weeks focusing on recent politics of terror,
we will spend the remainder of the first term studying the main psychological theories that have been used to explain
terrorist motivation. Throughout the first term students will be required to prepare several brief reaction papers and,
on at least one occasion, to present a very brief oral overview and extension of the previous week's class discussion.
In the second term, we will devote several weeks to the preparation of and participation in a class symposium on
the psychology of terror. Thereafter we will explore the psychology reactions to terror, especially the politics and psychology
of intolerance toward minorities.
Students should keep in mind that, consistent with university policy, our purpose in this course is the advancement of
learning. Achieving this purpose depends upon our maintaining an environment of tolerance and mutual respect.
Please be advised that some of the material discussed in the readings and in class for this course may be disturbing.
Required Texts:
Stewart Bell, The Martyr's Oath, 2005
Sigmund Freud, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, 1933.
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, On Killing, 1995.
Joseph LeDoux, The Emotional Brain, 1996.
George Marcus et al. With Malice Toward Some, 1995.
B.F. Skinner, Beyond Freedom and Dignity, 2002 [1971] Hackett 0-87220-627-0
Recommended Texts:
Martha Cottam, Introduction to Political Psychology, 2004.
James Kuklinski, ed., Thinking about Political Psychology, 2002
James Kuklinski, ed., Citizens & Politics: Perspectives from Political Psychology, 2002
Neil Kressel, Mass Hate, 2002.
Rose McDermott, Political Psychology in International Relations, 2004 JA. 74.5. M4 2004X
Terry McDermott, Perfect Soldiers, 2005.
K. R. Monroe ed., Political Psychology, 2002.
Jerrold Post, Leaders and Followers in a Dangerous World, 2004.
Paul Sniderman, et. al., The Clash of Rights, 1996.
Schedule of Classes
N.B. Titles marked with an asterisk are required; all others are recommended.
14 Sept. Introduction
John L. Sullivan et al., “The Contours of Political Psychology, pp 23-47 in James Kuklinski, ed., Thinking about Political Psychology, 2002.
Robert Fiske, "Something Happened Between 'I Love You' and the Click of the Phone," www.counterpunch.org/fisk07232005/html
21 Sept.
*Stewart Bell, The Martyr's Oath, Chapters 1-11.
Terry McDermott, Perfect Soldiers, Book One: "Soldiers" Appendix A., B. and C.
Stephen Holmes, "Al Queda, September 11, 2001." In Diego Gambetta ed. Making Sense of Suicide Missions, 2005
HV/6545/M255/2005/Robarts
Jonathan Randal, Osama: The Making of a Terrorist, 2004. HV/6430/B55R36/2004/Roba
Al-Qaida Recruitment Video in B& J. Rubin eds.Anti-American Terrorism: A Documentary Reader.
Al-Qaida Training Manual
http://www.usdoj.gov/ag/trainingmanual.htm
R. Bernstein, Out of the Blue
Terrorism Monitor (www.jamestown.org)
Walter Laquer, "World of Terror" National Geographic, November 2004.
28 Sept
*Stewart Bell, The Martyr's Oath, Chapters 12-18 & Appendicies 1-3.
Terry McDermott, Perfect Soldiers, Books Two & Three "The Engineer" and "The Plot"
Jon Elster, Motivations and Beliefs in Suicide Missions." In Diego Gambetta ed. Making Sense of Suicide Missions, 2005
HV/6545/M255/2005/Robarts
David Gray Griffin, The 9/11Omission Report: Omissions And Distortions, 2005 HV/6432.7/G745/2005X ROBA
Richard Bernstein, Out Of the Blue: the Story of September 11, 2000, Jihad to Ground Zero, HV/6432/B47/2002X/ROBA
Anthony Giddens, "The New Terrorism" LSE Public Lecture 10 November 2004
Isabelle Duyvesteyn, "How New Is the New Terrorism?" Studies in Conflict and Terrorism Vol 27 (5) Sep-Oct. 2004: 439 - 454
5 Oct.
Sigmund Freud and Psychoanalysis
*S. Freud, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, 1933. Lectures 31, 32 and 35. BF 173 F76
*----------, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, Chapters 7 & 8.
*----------, “Libidinal Types” In Character and Culture
______, A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis, 1920.
______, Civilization and Its Discontents, 1930.
J.A.C. Brown, Freud and the Post‑Freudians, 1961.
P. Rieff, Freud: The Mind of the Moralist, 1957.
G. Horowitz, Repression, 1977.
P. Roazen, Freud and his Followers, 1976.
P. Robinson, The Freudian Left, 1969.
Edward Erwin A Final Acccounting: Philosophical and Empirical Issues in Freudian Psychology Uof T ebook
Applicatiions
Robert
M. Young “Psychoanalysis, terrorism and fundamentalism,”
Psychodynamic Practice, Volume 9, Number 3 / August 2003, 307 – 324.
http://human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/pap139h.html
Dianne Casoni, and Louis Brunet, “The Psychodynamics of Terrorism” http://www.crim.umontreal.ca/cours/cri1600/revue/casobru.pdf
Nancy J. Chodorow, "Hate, Humiliation, and Masculinity," In Sverre Varin & Vamik Volkan eds. Violence or Dialogue? Psychoanalytic Insights on Terror and Terrorism, 2003. HV/6431/V566/2003/ Robarts
Werner Bohkeber, "Collective Phantasms, Destructiveness, and Terrorism" In Sverre Varin & Vamik Volkan eds. Violence or Dialogue? Psychoanalytic Insights on Terror and Terrorism, 2003. HV/6431/V566/2003/ Robarts
H. Shmuel Erlich, "Reflections on the Terrorist Mind" In Sverre Varin & Vamik Volkan eds. Violence or Dialogue? Psychoanalytic Insights on Terror and Terrorism, 2003. HV/6431/V566/2003/ Robarts
W. Gaylin, Hatred: The Psychological Descent into Violence
J. M. Schachter, The Eye of the Believer Ch 4 “Deterring Al-Qa’idah"
David A. Rothstein, "The Terrorist as Non-Patient Subject of Psychiatric Investigation," 2005 ISPP paper.
Malise Ruthven, The Fury of God: The Islamist Attack on America. Granata Books, 2002, pp 112-133.
Adorno, Altemeyer and Personality Theory
Kressel, Mass Hate, Preface and Chapters 7 pp 64-72; 181-191; 242-3.
R. Brown, Social Psychology, 1st edition, Chapter 10.
B. Altemeyer, Enemies of Freedom, 1988.
H.D. Forbes, Nationalism, Ethnocentrism and Personality, 1985.
Ziva Kunda, Social Cognition, Chapter 8.
Stanley Renshon and John Duckitt, Political Psychology 2000, Chapters 6 & 7.
12 Oct.
B.F. Skinner and Behaviorism
*B.F. Skinner, Beyond Freedom and Dignity, (1971) 2002.
________, Walden Two, 1948.
________, About Behaviorism, 1974.
F. Carpenter, The Skinner Primer, 1974.
A.E. Freedman and P.E. Freedman, The Psychology of Political Control,1975.
H. Wheeler (ed.), Beyond the Punitive Society, 1973
William O’Donahue and Kyle Ferguson, The Psychology of B.F. Skinner, Sage, 2001. BF 199 O39 2001 ROBA
Bruce A Thayer, ed., The Philosophical Legacy of Behaviorism (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1999. BF 199 P49 1999 ROBA
Various Authors, “Reflections on B.F. Skinner’s Psychology”, Special Issues of The American Psychologist, vol 47. #1, Nov 1992.
Applications
Mark A. Mattaini “Understanding and Reducing Collective Violence” Behavior and Social Issues, 12, 90-108 2003 http://www.bfsr.org/BSI_12_2/12_2mat1.pdf
"Editorial: The Science of Nonviolence," Behavior and Social Issues, 11, 100-104, 2002. http://www.bfsr.org/BSI_11_2/11_2Matt.pdf
M. Taylor and J.
Horgan "The
Psychological and Behavioral Bases of Islamic Fundamentalism"
Terrorism and Political Violence, Vol 13 (4) 2001 37 -
71
Deborah Skinner Buzan, "I was not a lab rat." The Guardian, Mar 12, 2004.
http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/healthmindandbody/story/0,6000%20,1168052,00.html
19 Oct.
Abraham Maslow and Humanistic Psychology
*A. Maslow, "A Theory of Motivation" online article http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Maslow/motivation.htm
*Syed V. Ahamed, An Enhanced Pyramid Of the Information Age Human Being, 2005 http://www.ahamed.org/
A. Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being, 1972. BF 698 M338 1968
A. Maslow, Motivation and Personality,1954.
_______, The Farther Reaches of Human Nature, 1971.
R. Fitzgerald, (ed.), Human Needs and Politics, 1977.
E. Hoffman, The Right to be Human: A Biography of Abraham Maslow, 1988.
R. Jacoby, Social Amnesia, 1975.
R. Manzer, Canada: A Sociopolitical Report, 1974.
Motivation, “Maslow's hierarchy of needs.” [videorecording] / Salenger Films--OISE/UofT Library Audio Visual VC 5308
http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/index.htm
Applications
Jessica Stern, Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill, 2003.pages 281- 286
Richard Schwing, "A Mental Model Proposed to Address Sustainability and Terrorism Issues" Risk Analysis Vol 22 (3): 415 - June 2002.
Ruth Levitas, “The Third Way and Beyond: Criticisms, Futures, Alternatives” The Sociological Review, Vol 52 (3) Page 424 - August 2004
"Fighting for God: Motivations and Aims of Religious Terrorists” Terrorism and Political Violence” Vol 15 (4) Winter 2003, 190 – 201.
R.E.S. Tanner & C.J. Pawson, “Contemporary Religious Violence and the Environment” Journal of. Human Ecology, 15(2): 119-127 (2004).
Sandra L. Williams, “How companies are responding to post-9/11 workplace values” Journal of Organizational Excellence 2002 Vol 21, Issue 3, 49 – 56.
Ervin Staub, “Notes on Cultures of Violence, Cultures of Caring and Peace, and the Fulfillment of Basic Human Needs” Political Psychology Vol 24:1 Mar 2003.
Who’s the Real Freud/Skinner/Maslow? www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/mytheory/freud/menu.html
26 Oct.
Social Psychology of Conformity and Obedience: Milgram, Asch and Sherif.
*Milgram on Obedience http://home.swbell.net/revscat/perilsOfObedience.html
*Solomon Asch on Conformity http://www.cultsock.ndirect.co.uk/MUHome/cshtml/index.html
(click on Index of Names; search for Asch and click on Conformity)
Muzafer Sherif on Groups http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Sherif/ summarized at *http://www.cultsock.ndirect.co.uk/MUHome/cshtml/index.html
(click on Index of Names; search for Shariff and click on Conflict Resolution)
SergeMoscovici on Minority Influence http://www.cultsock.ndirect.co.uk/MUHome/cshtml/index.html
(clik on Index of Names; search for Moscovici and click on Social Influence)
Kressel, Mass Hate, Preface and Chapter 6.pp166-173.
R. Brown, Social Psychology, 2nd edition, Chapter 1.
Seligman on Learned Helplessness http://tsukany.tripod.com/EPSY5463/helpless.html
Applications
F. M Moghaddam and A. J Marsella eds. Understanding Terrorism (selections (reader) pp44-5; 200-205
Clark McCauly, "Psychological Issues in Understanding Terrorism and the Response to Terrorism" In Chris E. Stout ed., Psychology of Terrorism, Condensed Edition: Coping with the Continuing Threat, 2004 HV 6431/p797/2004X pp 33-54.
Fathali M. Moghaddam, "The Staircase to Terrorism: A Psychological Exploration," The American Psychologist, Feb/Mar 2005 vol 60(2)p 61.
2 Nov.
Rational Choice Theory & Formal Modeling
*Robert Pape, Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism, 2005 http://www.antiwar.com/av/?articleid=7183
http://www.emailthis.clickability.com/et/emailThis?clickMap=viewThis&etMailToID=1004978110&pt=Y
*Jonathan M.. Schachter, The Eye of the Believer: Psychological Influences on Counterterrorism Policymaking, Ch 4, 2002 http://www.rand.org/publications/RGSD/RGSD166/
or at HV/6432/S345/Robarts.
*Linda O. Valenty, "Suicide Terrorism: Modeling Group Dynamics and Individual Behavior," 2005 ISPP paper.
Bruno S. Frey and Simon Luechinger Working Paper No. 136 "Terrorism: Deterrence May Backfire" December 2002 available online Search under "Terrorism: Deterrence May Backfire" for the link.
Bruno S. Frey and Simon Luechinger ”Decentralisation as a Disincentive to Terror” European Journal of Political Economy, 20(2): 590-515 (part 2 only) available online via UofT Library.
K.R.Monroe and L.H. Kreidie, "The Perspective of Islamic Fundamentalists and the Limits of Rational Choice Theory" Political Psychology, 1997. available online via UofT Library.
Mark Harrison, “An Economist Looks at Suicide Terrorism” 20 January 2004.
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/faculty/harrison/papers/terrorism.pdf
J.S. Levy, "Daniel Kahneman: Judgment, Decision, and Rationality" PS: Political Science and Politics, 2002
Amadeo, S. M. and Bruce Buena de Mesquita. 1999. "The Rochester School: The Origins of Positive Political Theory." Annual Review of Political Science.
Gibbons, Robert. 1997. “An Introduction to Applicable Game Theory.” The Journal of Economic Perspectives. [JSTOR]
Applications:
T. Sandler and D.G. Arce, "Terrorism and Game Theory" Simulation and Gaming 34 (2003) 319-37.Michael Johns and Barry G. Silverman “How Emotions and Personality Effect the Utility of Alternative Decisions: A Terrorist Target Selection Case Study” http://www.maxwell.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/seas/emotion.pdf
Roger D. Congleton, “The Future of Public Choice” Presented at the 6th International Meeting of the Japanese Public Choice Society,
Hosai University, Tokyo Japan, July 14, 2002. http://www.rdc1.net/forthcoming/FutofPC3.pdf
Eli Berman and David D. Laitin "Rational Martyrs vs. Hard Targets: Evidence on the Tactical Use of Suicide Attacks"
For inclusion in Eva Meyersson Milgrom, ed. Suicide Bombing from an Interdisciplinary Perspective (Princeton University Press)
http://gunston.doit.gmu.edu/liannacc/ERel/S2-Archives/REC04/Berman%20-%20Rational%20Martyrs.pdf
Michael Johns and Barry G. Silverman “How Emotions and Personality Effect the Utility of Alternative Decisions: A Terrorist Target Selection Case Study”
http://www.maxwell.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/seas/emotion.pdf
Abdelaziz Testas, "Determinants of Terrorism in the Muslim World: An Empirical Cross-Sectional Analysis" Terrorism and Political Violence Volume 16 (2) Summer 2004: 253 - 273.
Anton Lowenberg and Timothy Matthews, "Why Iraq?" http://www.pubchoicesoc.org/papers2005/lowenberg_mathews.pdf
Mark Harrison, “An Economist Looks at Suicide Terrorism” http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/faculty/harrison/papers/terrorism.pdf
9 Nov
Social Cognition
*Harold Kelley and John Michela, "Attribution Theory and Research," Annual Review of Psychology, 1980, Vol. 31, Pages 457-501. (available online through the UofT Library by searching e-resources for Annual Review of Psychology. Select the version from EBSCO publishing.
Susan Fiske and Shelley. Taylor, Social Cognition, 2nd edition 1991, Chapters 1-4.
Ziva Kunda, Social Cognition, 2002.Chapters 9-11. BF 323 .S63K86 1999X
http://www.netLibrary.com/ebook_info.asp?product_id=9336
http://cognet.mit.edu/library/books/book.tcl?isbn=0262611430
S. T. Fiske, "Social Cognition and Social Perception" Annual Review of Psychology, 1993, Vol. 44, Pages 155-194
Susan T. Fiske, “Thinking Is for Doing: Portraits of Social Cognition From Daguerreotype to Laserphoto”
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology December 1992 Vol. 63, No. 6, 877-889
http://www.psycinfo.com/library/display.cfm?document=psp/1992/december/psp636877.html
Daryl Bem, Beliefs, Attitudes and Human Affairs, 1970.
R. Brown, Social Psychology, 2nd edition, Chapters 4 and 5.
F. Heider, The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations, 1958.
James Kukilinski, ed. Citizens and Politics, 2002.
James Kuklinski, ed., Thinking about Political Psychology, 2002
Arthur Lupia, et al., eds., Elements of Reason, 2000.
Kathleen McGraw, “Contributions of the Cognitive Approach to Political Psychology,” Political Psychology Vol 21 #4 2000 pp 805-832.
Applications
Randy Borum, "Understanding the Terrorist Mind-Set," FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin July 2003 p7 http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/fbi/terrorist_mindset.pdf
R. Borum, (2004). Psychology of terrorism. Tampa: University of South Florida.
http://www.mipt.org/pdf/Psychology-of-Terrorism.pdf
Anthony Marsella, "The Cultural Context of International Political Terrorism," 2005 ISPP paper.
16 Nov
Neuroscience I
*Joseph LeDoux The Emotional Brain, Chapters 1-5.
Ralph Adolphs, "Cognitive Neuroscience of Human Social Behavior" Nature Reviews, volume 4 Mar 2003, 165--174.
Joseph LeDoux The Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are, 2002.
Antonio Damasio, Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain 1994 Chapts, 1-6.
Marie T. Banich, Neuropsychology: The Neural Basis of Mental Function, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997.
Mark F. Bear et al., Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain, 2nd edition, Baltimore: Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins, 2001, esp Ch. 18, pp 581-605.
Scientific American Special Edition Vol 12 #1, The Hidden Mind, Summer 2002.esp.pp 62-71.
Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence, 1995
Daniel Goleman et al., Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence, 2002
Malcolm Gladwell, Blink, 2005.
J. Allan Hobson, 13 Dreams Freud Never Had: The New Mind Science, 2005.
23 Nov
Neuroscience II
*Joseph LeDoux The Emotional Brain, Chapters 6-9.
*Antoine Bechera et al., Deciding Advantageously before knowing the advantageous strategy. Science vol 275, 1293-1295. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/275/5304/1293
Robert H. Blank, "Policy Implications of Advances in Cognitive Neuroscience" www.aaas.org/spp/yearbook/2003/ch6.pdf
Jacek Debiec and Joseph Le Doux "Fear and the Brain" Social Research; New York, Winter 2004; Vol.71, Iss.4 (on line at UofT library)
Antonio Damasio, Descartes’ Error 1994, Chapters 7-11 and postscript.
Antonio Damasio, The Feeling of What Happens
Michael S. Gazzaniga, The Mind's Past.University of California Press, 1998. http://www.shef.ac.uk/~phil/connex/issue04/teixeira.html
Richard Restak, Poe's Heart And the Mountain Climber, 2004, Ch 4.
Daniel Schachter, The Seven Sins of Memory, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001, Ch. 6 (153-160).
Ziva Kunda, Social Cognition, Chapters 6 & 7.
Turhan Canli et al, "Sex Differences in the Neural Basis of Emotional Memories" PNAS, August 6, to them2002 99 (16):10789 -- 10794
Dominque J-F de Quervan, Urs Fischbacher et al " The Neural Basis of Altruistic Punishment" Science 27 August 2004 1254-58.
Robert Blank, "Policy Implications of Advances in Cognitive Neuroscience" http://www.aaas.org/spp/yearbook/2003/ch6.pdf
30 Nov.
The Psychology of Killing I
*Grossman, On Killing. 1995 Sections I-IV
Rex Hudson, “The Sociology and Psychology of Terrorism: Who Becomes a Terrorist and Why?”
www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Sociology-Psychology%20of%20Terrorism.htm
http://www.blue-oceans.com/education/terror_psych.html
David Brooks, The Culture of Martyrdom” Atlantic Monthly June 2002. http://www.theAtlantic.com/issues/2002/06/brooks.htm
7 Dec.
The Psychology of Killing II
*Grossman, On Killing. 1995 Sections V-VIII
Jeffrey Ian Ross "Beyond the Conceptualization of Terrorism: A Psychological-Structural Model"
in Craig Summers and Eric Markusen, eds, Collective Violence: Harmful Behavior in Groups and Governments.
Lanham, Md.:Rowan and Littlefield, 1999. HM 281.C553 1999x ROBA
Allison Abbott, "Into the Mind Of a Killer" Nature, volume 410, 15 Mar 2001, 296-298.
Part V Student Symposium of the Psychology of Terrorism
11 Jan. No class meeting as students prepare for Symposium.
(Working either individually or in pairs, students will prepare a three page (750 words max) report on the psychology of terrorism and offer a short synopsis in class on January 18th or 25th. The report should be based upon the material covered in the first term and at least one other recent book on terrorism.
Some Recent Works on Terror
J. Barker, The No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism, 2003
Stewart Bell, Cold Terror, 2004.
Daniel Benjamin and Stephen Simon, The Age of Sacred Terror, 2002.
Peter Bergen, Holy War, Inc. NY: Touchstone, 2002.
Youssef Bodansky, Bin Laden: The Man who Declared War on America NY: Prima, 2001.
Randy Borum, "Psychology of Terrorism" http://www.mipt.org/pdf/Psychology-of-Terrorism.pdf
Craig Calhoun et al eds., Understanding September 11. NY: The New Press, 2002
Caleb Carr, The Lessons of Terror, 2002.
Greg Child, Over the Edge: The True Story of Four American Climbers' Kidnap and
Cindy Coombs, Terrorism in the Twenty First Century Third edition, Prentice Hall, 2002
Steve Coll, Ghost Wars, 2004 DS371.2 .C63 2004X Robarts
John Esposito, Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam, Oxford University Press, 2002.
Sam Harris, the end of faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason, 2004. BL/2775.3/H37/2004/SMC
Harry Henderson, Terrorism, NY: Facts on File, 2001
Eric Hershberg and Kevin Moore, Critical Views of September 11. NY: The New Press, 2002
John Horgan, The Psychology of Terrorism, 2005.
Roland Jacquard, In the Name of Osama Bin Laden, Duke Univ Press, 2002. HV 6430 .B55J3313 2002X
Richard Labévière, Dollars for Terror: The United States and Islam NY:Algora, 2001. HV 6432 L3313 2000x ROBA
Terry McDermott, Perfect Soldiers, 2005.
Eric Margolis, War at the Top of the World, Routledge, 2001.
Michael J. Mazarr, "The Psychological Sources of Islamic Terrorism" Policy Review 125 http://www.policyreview.org/jun04/mazarr_print.html
John Miller and Michael Stone, The Cell: Inside the 9/11 Plot and Why the FBI and CIA Failed to Stop It. Hyperion, 2002.
Ihekwoaba Onwudiwe, The Globalisation of Terrorism (Adershot UK: Ashgate, 2001) HV 6431 68
2001 ROBA
www.rand.org/hot/newslinks/terrorism.html
Jerrold Post, "The Psychological and Behavioral Bases of Terrorism: Individual, Group and Collective Contributions" Group of Madrid Summary ISPP 2005.
Jerrold Post, "When Hatred is Bred in the Bone: Psycho-cultural Foundationsof Contemporary Terrorism" Political Psychology, vol 26 #4 Aug 2005, 615-636.
David Rappoport ed., Inside Terrorist Organizations. London: Frank Cass, 2001. esp articles by Crenshaw (13-31)
and Crelinsten(59-89) HV 6431 I48 2001 ROBA
Ahmed Rashid, Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia, Yale University Press, 2002.
Simon Reeve, The New Jackels, 1999.
Barry amd Judith Rubin, eds. Anti-American Terrorism and the Middle East. Oxford 2002.
Walter Reich ed., Origins of Terrorism NY: Cambridge, 1990.HV 6431 O74 1990.
Jeffrey Ian Ross, "Taking Stock of Research Methods and Analysis On Oppositional Political Terrorism" The American Sociologist, Summer 2004, 26-37.
Malise Ruthven, The Fury of God: The Islamist Attack on America. Granata Books, 2002.
Marc Sageman, Understanding Terror Networks, 2004.
Marc Sageman, "The Psychology of al Qaeda Terrorists" www.nijpcs.org/terror/Sageman%20Paper.pdf
also in International Journal of Security Studies.
Andrew Silke, ed., Terrorists, Victims and Society: Psychological Perspectives on Terrorism and Its Consequences, 2003 HV/6431/T554/2003/Scar
Chris E. Stout, The Psychology of Terrorism, 2002 HV6431 .P798 2002 v.1-4 TRIN
Jeff Victoroff, "The Mind of the Terrorist: A Review and Critique of Psychological Approaches," Journal of Conflict Resolution, 49(1) 2005: 3-42.
David Whittaker, ed., The Terrorism Reader, London & NY The Terrorism Reader 2001
Paul L. Williams, Al Qaeda: Brotherhood of Terror, Alpha Press, 2002.
18 Jan.
Symposium on the Psychology of Terrorism Part 1
25 Jan.
Symposium on the Psychology of Terrorism Part 2.
Part VI Coming to (In)tolerance
1 Feb
Symposium on the Psychology of Terrorism Part 3.
8 Feb
The Research Tradition on Tolerance
*Paul Sniderman et al. "The Fallacy of Democratic Elitism" British Journal of Political Science 1991 vol21(3):349-70
*Paul Sniderman et al. The Outsider, "Right Shock Model" pp 120-125.
Kevin Hill, “Tolerance and Generations” http://drhill.tripod.com/genx.htm
Shmuel Lock, Crime, Public Opinion and Civil Libertites, Praeger 1999.
H. McClosky and A. Brill, Dimensions of Tolerance, 1983.
C.Z. Nunn et al., Tolerance for Nonconformity, 1978.
Paul Sniderman et al, The Clash of Rights, 1996.
Paul Sniderman et al, “The Theory of Democratic Elitism Revisited” Canadian Journal of Political Science, Vol 33:3 (Sept) 2000, 569-586.
P. Sniderman et al., Reasoning and Choice: Explorations in Political Psychology, 1991.
P. Sniderman et al., “The Role of Law as a Persuasive Symbol” in Paul Sniderman et al, Reasoning and Choice, 1991, Chapter 11. Samuel Stouffer, Communism, Conformity and Civil Liberties, 1955, 1963. JC 599 U5S82
Stanley Renshon and John Duckitt, Political Psychology 2000, Chapter15.
Sidney Verba, “Representative Democracy and Democratic Citizens”
http://www.tannerlectures.utah.edu/lectures/verba00.pdf
"Intolerance and Discrimination against Muslims in Selected EU Member States" Report to the OSCE Conference on Tolerance and the Fight against Racism, Xenophobia and Discrimination Brussels, September 13-14, 2004.http://www.ihf-hr.org
15 Feb
Judgements and Feelings
*G. Marcus et al., Part I
J. Sullivan et al., Political Tolerance and American Democracy,1982.
J Fletcher & B. Sergeyev, "Islam and Intolerance in Central Asia" Europe Asia Studies March 2002
Paul M. Sniderman et al, Reasoning and Choice: Explorations in Political Psychology, Cambridge University Press, 1991, esp. Ch 3 "Values under pressure: AIDS and civil liberties" and Ch 7 "Democratic Values and mass publics"
George Marcus et al., Affective Intelligence and Political Judgement, Chicago, 2000
22 Feb. Reading Week!
1Mar.
The Role of Information
*G. Marcus et al., Part II
James Gibson, “Becoming Tolerant?” British Journal of Political Science, vol 32, 2002, 309-324.
8 Mar.
Antecedent Conditions
*G. Marcus et al., Part III
James Gibson & Amanda Gouws, Overcoming Intolerance in South Africa, Cambridge, 2002.
15 Mar.
Psychology, Politics and Tolerance
*G. Marcus et al., Part IV
G. Marcus et al, "The Emotional Foundations of Political Cognition," Political Psychology, Vol 26(6) Dec 2005.
D. Chong, "Free Speech and Multiculturalism In and Out of the Academy," Political Psychology, Vol 27(1) Feb 2006.
Part V From 911 to Abu Ghraib
22 Mar.
The Politics of Fear
*Ronald Dworkin, "Terror and the Attack on Civil Liberties." New York Review of Books Vol 50 (17) Nov 6, 2003 paste this address in browser: http://www02.homepage.villanova.edu/farhang.erfani/PDF/DworkinCivilLiberties.pdf
or Ronald Dworkin, "Terror and the Attack on Civil Liberties." In Tom Rockmore, Joseph Margolis and Armen T. Marsoobian (eds.), The Philosophical Challenge of September 11, 2005 HV/6432.7/P49/2005 Robarts
*Corey Robin, "Liberalism at Bay, Conservatism at Play: Fear in the Contemporary Imagination," Social Research; New York, Winter 2004; Vol.71, Iss.4 (on line at UofT library)
*Chris Sparks,”Liberalism, Terrorism and the Politics of Fear” Politics Vol 23(3): 200 September 2003. (on line at UofT library)
Wafa Sultan 2006 "Arab American Clashes with Algerian Islamist" & "Clashes with Muslim Cleric" Go to www.ifilm.com and search for Wafa Sultan.
Gary S. Becker and Yona Rubinstein "Fear and the Response to Terrorism: An Economic Analysis"
http://www.econ.ku.dk/CAM/Files/Autumn%202004/beckerrubinstein_0801.pdf
Elaine Cassel, The War on Civil Liberites, 2004 KF/4749/C33/2004X
Candace Cohn, “The Assault on Civil Liberties” in International Socialist Review (March/April) 2002, 18-31.
David Cole and James Dempsey, Terrorism and the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security. NY: The New Press, 2002
International Socialist Review issue of Civil Liberties http://www.isreview.org/issues/22/22.shtml
Ronald Daniels et al., eds., The Security of Freedom: Essays on Canada’s Anti-Terrorism Bill, U of T Press, 2001.
Pervez Hoodbhoy, "The United States and Islam: Toward Perpetual War? " Social Research Winter 2005 Vol 72(4) 873.
Michael Ignatieff, "Is the Human Rights Era Ending?" in Cigler, A.J. (ed) Perspectives on Terrorism, 2002.
Neil Kressel, Mass Hate, Preface and Chapter 8
Richard Posner, “Security versus civil liberties”, Atlantic Monthly December 2001. http://www.theAtlantic.com/issues/2001/12/posner.htm
Corey Robin, Fear: The History of a Political Idea, 2004.
Special Report: For whom the Liberty Bell tolls - Civil liberties The Economist; London; Aug 31, 2002; Volume: 364 p 19.
Cass. R. Sunstein, "Fear and Liberty" Social Research Winter 2004; 71, 4; page 967-996.
Ezra S Susser, “Combating the terror of terrorism” Scientific American, Aug 2002; V. 287, 2; p70.
29 Mar
Responding To 9/11
*Rajiv Jhangiani and Peter Suedfeld, "The Structure of Terror: Cognitive and Emotional Processing Of 9/11 Newscasters," 2005 ISPP paper or www.psych.ubc.ca/~rajiv/papers.thesis.pdf
*Allan Gregg, "Identity Crisis" The Walrus Vol. 3(2) March 2006, pp 38-47 (available from Prof. Fletcher).
*Darren W. Davis and Brian D. Silver, "Civil Liberties vs. Security in the Context of the Terrorist Attacks on America"
https://www.apsanet.org/~polcomm/news/2003/terrorism/papers/Davis-Silver.pdf
also in American Journal of Political Science, vol 48:1, January 2004, 28-46.
Joseph Fletcher, Andre Turcotte and Adam Anderson, "Engendering Terror: Cognitive and Emotive Responses to 9/11."
Clark McCauley, “The Psychology of Terrorism” www.ssrc.org/sept11/essas/mccauley_text_only.htm
Elaine Hatfield and Richard Rapson, “Emotional Contagion: Religious and Ethnic Hatreds and Global Terrorism” in
Huddy, L., Khatib, N. & Capelos, T. (2002). The Polls—Trends: Reactions to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Public Opinion Quarterly 66, 418-450.
Leonie.Huddy, Stanley Feldman, T. Capelos, & C. Provost. (2002). The consequences of terrorism: disentangling the effects of personal and national threat. Political Psychology, 23, 485-509.
P. Alex Linley, Stephen Joseph, Rachel Cooper, Sophie Harris and Caroline Meyer “Positive and Negative Changes Following Vicarious Exposure to the September 11 Terrorist Attacks” Journal of Traumatic Stress Volume 16, Number 5 October 2003: 481 - 485.
Clark McCauly, "Psychological Issues in Understanding Terrorism and the Response to Terrorism" In Chris E. Stout ed., Psychology of Terrorism, Condensed Edition: Coping with the Continuing Threat, 2004 HV 6431/p797/2004X pp 52-62.
Larissa Tiedans and Colin Leach eds. The Social Life of the Emotions Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Science, Vol 306, Issue 5701, 1482-1483 , 26 November 2004.
Response to Fiske et al. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/307/5717/1873b
*Lasana T. Harris and Susan T. Fiske, "Dehumanizing the Lowest of the Low" Forthcoming in Psychological Science
*Implicit Association Test www.implicit.harvard.edu (take the Arab-Muslim IAT test).
*Thomas Carnahan and Sam McFarland, "Personality, Volunteering for the Stanford Prison Experiment, and Abu Ghraib," 2005 ISPP paper
Jennifer L. Eberhardt, "Imaging Race" American Psychologist, Vol 60(2), Feb-March 2005: 181-190.
Armen T. Marsoobian "The Road from September 11 to Abu Ghraib." In Tom Rockmore, Joseph Margolis and Armen T. Marsoobian (eds.), The Philosphical Challenge of September 11, 2005 HV/6432.7/P49/2005 Robarts
Mary E. Wheeler and Susan T. Fiske “Controlling Racial Prejudice: Social-Cognitive Goals Affect Amygdala and Stereotype Activation” Psychological Science Volume 16 Issue 1 Page 56 - January 2005 http://psychologicalscience.org/pdf/ps/race_fear.pdf
Mika Doritos-Fatouros & Phillip Zimbardo, "The Iraqi torturers: A commentary and an analysis," 2005 ISPP paper
R. Abed, "Tyranny and Mental Health" British Medical Bulletin 2003, 72 (1) 1-13.
R. Crelinsten and I. Özkut, “CounterTerrorism Policy and Human Rights” (reader)
“Who’s Who at Guantanamo Bay” Terrorist Monitor 2:18
http://www.jamestown.org/publications_details.php?volume_id=400&&issue_id=3080
JoAnn Wypijewski, Judgement Days: Lessons from the Abu Ghraib courts-martial" Harpers, Feb 2006: 39-50.
Sam Keen, Faces of the Enemy: The Psychology of Enmity, San Francisco: Harper&Row 1988.
Harold Repinsky, The Abstract Geometry of Violence and Democracy.
Peter Lieberman, Punishing Evildoers
Elizabeth Levy Paluck & Donald P. Green, "Prejudice reduction: What works? A
review and assessment of research and practice" ISPP 2005
Evan R. Harrington "The
Social Psychology of Hatred"
guweb2.gonzaga.edu/againsthate/journal3/GHS110.pdf
Jane Mayer, "Outsourcing Torture" The New Yorker, February 14, 2005 www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/050214fa_fact6
12 April
In class Term Test
Grading Scheme
various dates Summary of Preceding Class 5%*
5 October one page response (250 words) to The Martyr's Oath 5%
2 November two page response (500 words) to Classic Psychological Approaches 10%
30 November two page response (500 words) to Recent Psychological Approaches 10%
18 January Symposium Contribution (750 words) 20%
18 January-1 February Presentation at Symposium 10%**
15 February Re-write of Symposium Contribution 5%
*Each week a small group of students will summarize the previous week’s discussion & extend it through reference to the recommended or other literature.
This will be evaluated in part by the instructor and in part by other students in class using an evaluation sheet asking:
How useful was the presentation as a summary of last week's class? 1-10
How effectively did the presentation extend the discussion of last weeks class? 1-10
**This will be evaluated in part by the instructor and in part by other students in class using an evaluation sheet asking:
Overall, how would you rate the symposium contribution? 1-10
Written assignments are due at the beginning of class on the date due. Late papers will be penalized 10% of the mark per day. Students will collect all the written assignments in a slim folder such as a duo-tang. This folder containing all the previous assignments will be submitted and returned with each assignment. Taken together the assignments will represent a student's evolving thinking regarding the psychology and politics of terror and intolerance.