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Abstract
Violent ethno-nationalist conflicts continue to mar the history of the twentieth century; yet no satisfactory answer to the question of why humans are susceptible to indoctrination by ideologies that lead to inter-group hostility has so far been found. In this volume an international team of leading scientists from many different fields approach this complex issue from a biological perspective, treating indoctrinability as a predisposition that has its roots in humanity's evolutionary past.
Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt and Frank K. Salter, Forschungsstelle für Humanethologie, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indoctrinability, Ideology, and Warfare | iii | ||
| Copyright Page | iv | ||
| Contents | v | ||
| Figures and Tables | vii | ||
| Acknowledgements | xiv | ||
| Notes on Contributors | xv | ||
| Chapter 1. Introduction | 1 | ||
| Part 1. Evolutionary Precursors and Models | 19 | ||
| Chapter 2. Us and the Others | 21 | ||
| Chapter 3. War and Peacemaking | 55 | ||
| Chapter 4. The Evolution of Human Ultrasociality | 71 | ||
| Chapter 5. Notions of Nature, Culture, and the Sources of Indoctrinability | 97 | ||
| Part 2. Traditional Cultures | 107 | ||
| Chapter 6. Indoctrinatin Among the Eipo of the Highlands of West-New-Guinea | 109 | ||
| Chapter 7. Indoctrinability and the Evolution of Socially Defined Kinship | 133 | ||
| Chapter 8. The Politics of Peace in Primitive Societies | 151 | ||
| Part 3. Individual Behavioral Mechanisms | 187 | ||
| Chapter 9. Prejudice and Inferential Communication | 189 | ||
| Chapter 10. Sex and Gender in Advertisements | 219 | ||
| Chapter 11. The Role of Sex and Emotional Response in Indoctrinability | 241 | ||
| Chapter 12. Ideology and Physiological Regulation | 263 | ||
| Part 4. Symbolism | 277 | ||
| Chapter 13. Art and Indoctrination | 279 | ||
| Chapter 14. Probing Images of Politicians and International Affairs | 301 | ||
| Part 5. Group Processes | 323 | ||
| Chapter 15. Reinvent Yourself | 325 | ||
| Chapter 16. Indoctrination and Group Evolutionary Strategies | 345 | ||
| Chapter 17. Genetic similarity Theory, Ethnocentrism, and Group Selection | 369 | ||
| Chapter 18. Ethnocentrism vs. Pragmatism in the Conduct of Human Affairs | 389 | ||
| Part 6. Institutional Mechanisms | 407 | ||
| Chapter 19. Ideology, Indoctrination, and Noncognitive foundations of Belief in Legitimacy | 409 | ||
| Chapter 20. Indoctrination as Institutionalized Persusasion | 421 | ||
| Chapter 21. On the Evolution of Political Communities | 453 | ||
| Index of Persons | 479 | ||
| Subject Index | 487 |