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5 - The Role of Social Psychology in Preventing Group-Selective Mass Atrocities

from Part I - Fluidities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2015

Sheri P. Rosenberg
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Cardozo Law School
Tibi Galis
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Auschwitz Institute, New York
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