Legitimacy is a psychological property of an authority, institution, or social arrangement that
leads those connected to it to believe that it is appropriate, proper, and just. Because of …

Politicians frequently make use of mythologized understandings of the past to mobilize
memory as an instrument of politics in the present. Despite the postwar “memory boom” …

Legal socialization is the process by which children and adolescents acquire their law
related values, attitudes, and reasoning capacities. Such values and attitudes, in particular …

This book provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and holistic analysis of the socio-
psychological dynamics of intractable conflicts. Daniel Bar-Tal's original conceptual …

We offer a functional perspective on hate, showing that hate has a unique pattern of
appraisals and action tendencies. Hate is based on perceptions of a stable, negative …

How could the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) not only survive but even thrive, regaining
the support of many Chinese citizens after the Tiananmen Square crackdown of 1989? Why …

Research and theory on intergroup contact have become one of the fastest advancing and
most exciting fields in social psychology in recent years. The work is exciting because it …

I develop a theoretical framework that specifies the content underlying legitimacy judgments
and a model of the process by which these judgments develop and change. I argue that …

Legitimacy is a concept meant to capture the beliefs that bolster willing obedience. The
authors model legitimacy as a sense of obligation or willingness to obey authorities (value …

Many countries have attempted to transition to democracy following conflict or repression,
but the basic meaning of transitional justice remains hotly contested. In this book, Colleen …