Social Psychology

Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass by Theodore Dalrymple, Ivan R. Dee, 2003.

Mobbing: Emotional Abuse in the American Workplace  by Noa Davenport, Ruth D. Schwartz and Gail Pursell Elliott, Civil Society Publishing, 2005.  Workplace Bullying Mobbing is a workplace group behavior where the victim is emotionally abused until they decide to quit their job. It is also called workplace bullying. A sign that an employee is being mobbed: the employee’s job performance evaluations suddenly plummet. Mobbing differs from the situation of a bad boss, in that the

The Disease to Please: Curing the People-Pleasing Syndrome  by Harriet Braiker, McGraw-Hill, 2002.  Conflict Avoidancee This book teaches conflict-avoidant people how to say NO! People pleasers are people who try to make everyone like them. People pleasers do not want to hurt the feelings of other people. People pleasers often practice conflict avoidance. People pleasers are disproportionately female Downsides There are downside to people pleasing. Neglecting your own needs.

Envy: A Theory of Social Behaviour  by Helmut Schoeck, Liberty Fund, 1987.  Envy Envy plays a major role in many primitive cultures. Envious people suspect successful people of having achieved their success by practicing sorcery. People who are envied fear that the envious ones will practice black magic against them to hurt them. If something bad happens by chance to the envied person, they will believe that their misfortune was caused by the black magic of the envier. Witchc

Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense  by Gad Saad. Regnery Publishing; (2021)  Ostrich Parasitic Syndrome People infected with a social mind virus deny realities that they can see with their own eyes. For example, the fact that Islam is an unusually violent religion.  Collective Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome Analogous to the psychological disorder, Munchausen by Proxy, Left-wing advocates for minorities the receiving attention by pointing at people who