Download or read book The Roots of Evil written by Ervin Staub and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-07-31 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can human beings kill or brutalise multitudes of other human beings? Focusing particularly on genocide, Erwin Staub explores the psychology of group aggression. He sketches a conceptual framework for the many influences on one group's desire to harm another and within this framework, considers four historical examples of genocide.