Frustration induces rage. Mimesis causes mirror-image negative emotions. Stereotype dualities dichotomize the social world. Individual will and consciousness submerge in crowd-psychology emotional contagion. Obedience to authority takes the place of conscience.
Insular groups exhibit fierce internal cohesion.
Konner, the Samuel Chandler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology and associate professor of psychiatry and neurology at Emory University, paused for a moment. The answers were complex, measured and often sobering. It lasted all day and featured six panels, each made up of leading thinkers on the issue at hand. The opening session probed the larger questions of ethnopolitical conflict through the perspectives of anthropology, political science and psychology. Four panels focused on Jerusalem, Kosovo, Kashmir and Rwanda.