We aimed to assess, in socio-cultural context, the level of hatred and revenge in war veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The sampling frame consisted of 215 Kosova War veterans, randomly selected. The Harvard Trauma Questionnaire was used to assess the prevalence of PTSD and Manchester Short Assessment of Life was used to assess social satisfactions. The participants were aske...

This paper develops a model of the interaction between the supply of hatecreating stories from politicians and the willingness of voters to listen to hatred. Hatred is fostered with stories of an out-group’s crimes, but the impact of these stories comes from repetition not truth. Hate-creating stories are supplied by politicians when such actions help to discredit opponents whose policies benef...

What determines the intensity and objects of hatred? Hatred forms when people believe that out-groups are responsible for past and future crimes, but the reality of past crimes has little to do with the level of hatred. Instead, hatred is the result of an equilibrium where politicians supply stories of past atrocities in order to discredit the opposition and consumers listen to them. The supply...

Surgeons share their challenges and dilemmas in making ethical decisions in these twelve personal stories. The three commentary articles draw out the lessons the stories address. The commentators come from diverse backgrounds including sociology, bioethics, nursing, and surgery.

Three studies investigated the implicit constructions of reality associated with cultural differences in enemyship (personal relationship of hatred, malice, and sabotage). Results of interview (Study 1; N = 98) and questionnaire (Study 2; N = 166) research indicated that enemyship was more prominent among Ghanaian participants than among U.S. participants. Additional evidence located a potentia...

Drawing on insights from human rights law, femicide laws, and hate crime studies, this article discusses the viability of including ‘gender’ in legislation, extent to which a legal approach ‘gender-based crimes’ could serve more efficient response global prevalence violence against women than similar types measurements. The argues that, although there are sound principal reasons for it ultimate...

Although anti-Muslim hate crimes have been on the rise in most Western nations for decades, according to influential crime scholar, Barbara Perry, little attention has given particular vulnerability of veiled Muslim females such (Perry 2013), thereby potentially disregarding a sustained source human rights violations and Olsson 2009). This paper delves into Danish sociolegal reality delineate s...

Words Abstract words are words or concepts that cannot be grasped by the human senses and that do not provoke a corresponding image in the mind. In the German language, abstract words may be constructed from adjectives and verbs with an emotional tone, for example ärgern Ärger (to make angry anger), hassen Hass (to hate hatred), blöd Blödheit (foolish foolishness), dumm Dummheit (stupidly stupi...