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050 00 $aU22.3$b.G76 1995
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100 1 $aGrossman, Dave.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95030294
245 10 $aOn killing :$bthe psychological cost of learning to kill in war and society /$cDave Grossman.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aBoston :$bLittle, Brown,$c[1995], ©1995.
300 $axxvi, 367 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [348]-353) and index.
520 $aThe twentieth century, with its bloody world wars, revolutions, and genocides accounting for hundreds of millions dead, would seem to prove that human beings are incredibly vicious predators and that killing is as natural as eating. But Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman, a psychologist and U.S. Army Ranger, demonstrates this is not the case.
520 8 $aThe good news, according to Grossman - drawing on dozens of interviews, first-person reports, and historic studies of combat, ranging from Frederick the Great's battles in the eighteenth century through Vietnam - is that the vast majority of soldiers are loath to kill. In World War II, for instance, only 15 to 25 percent of combat infantry were willing to fire their rifles.
520 8 $aThe provocative news is that modern armies, using Pavlovian and operant conditioning, have learned how to overcome this reluctance. In Korea about 50 percent of combat infantry were willing to shoot, and in Vietnam the figure rose to over 90 percent. The bad news is that by conditioning soldiers to overcome their instinctive loathing of killing, we have drastically increased post-combat stress - witness the devastated psychological state of our Vietnam vets as compared with those from earlier wars.
520 8 $aAnd the truly terrible news is that contemporary civilian society, particularly the media, replicates the army's conditioning techniques and - according to Grossman's controversial thesis - is responsible for our rising rates of murder and violence, particularly among the young.
520 8 $aIn the explosive last section of the book, he argues that high-body-count movies, television violence (both news and entertainment), and interactive point-and-shoot video games are dangerously similar to the training programs that dehumanize the enemy, desensitize soldiers to the psychological ramifications of killing, and make pulling the trigger an automatic response.
650 0 $aCombat$xPsychological aspects.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85028793
650 0 $aPsychology, Military.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85108477
650 0 $aHomicide$xPsychological aspects.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061744
650 0 $aViolence$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aViolence$xPsychological aspects.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113260
852 00 $bleh$hU22.3$i.G76 1995