[extropy-chat] Re: POLITICS: 537 Economists Criticize Bush and Kerry

[Eliezer Yudkowsky]

Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> 
> (Can anybody point me to some introductory psychological literature
> that covers group mentality?  I imagine this being so basic that
> it must have been exhaustively treated even a century ago.)

Not a century ago, but you can find quite a lot on it in social psychology 
- any textbook or reader will have something on it.  Group polarization, 
inter-group dynamics, etc.  Social psychology has the dreadful and 
startling and reproducible experiments, evolutionary psychology has the 
explanation and math.

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence