This page contains reference copies of handouts and other material used for teaching.

References

• Bandura, Albert. "Psychological Mechanisms of Aggression."
• Dalai Lama. A theory of spiritual growth and world peace.
• Etheredge, Lloyd . Discussion notes for William Broyles, Jr., "Why Men Love War."
• Etheredge, Lloyd . Discussion notes for Hearts and Minds. Exercise to identify and review causal mechanisms for aggression and war based on the film.
• Etheredge, Lloyd . Discussion notes for Lord of the Flies. Re-reading the novel (which most students have read in high school) as an experiment. New explanations of aggression, via social science, to Golding's own interpretation of the experiment. Note that Golding's book is based on a 19th century British story, The Coral Reef, where the marooned British lads took charge and created civilization before they were rescued - an opposite outcome of the experiment that other readers once found plausible.
• Etheredge, Lloyd . "Personality Effects on American Foreign Policy, 1898-1968: A Test of Interpersonal Generalization Theory," American Political Science Review, 72 (1978), pp. 434-451.
• Fraiberg, Selma. "Laughing Tiger" from The Magic Years.
• Freud, Sigmund. Letter to Albert Einstein ("Why War?"), September, 1932.
• Frye, Northrup re Aristotle's "universal human events" from The Educated Imagination.
• Gladstone, Arthur, "The Conception of the Enemy" (1959).
• Goldstein, Joshua. Table of Hegemonic Wars, 1495-1989 from Long Cycles: Prosperity and War in the Modern Age, included in Lloyd Etheredge, "Notes on World History and Learning in International Politics."
• Kohlberg, Lawrence. Letter to The New York Times, February 28, 1974, re Stanley Milgram's experiments.
• Lenski, Gerhard. Table of types of societies & tribes and warlikeness.
• Marshall, S.L.A., discussion of following orders on the battlefield, from his Men Under Fire, by Roy Prosterman.
• Neitzsche, Friedrich, from The Geneology of Morals.
• Olweus, Dan et al., "Circulating Testosterone Levels and Aggression in Adolescent Males: A Causal Analysis."
• Reich, Robert from Tales of a New America.
• Shakespeare, William. Three speeches from Henry V.
• Sivard, Ruth. Table of War and War-Related Deaths, 1700-1987.
• Sorel, Georges from Reflections on Violence.